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I left my home in the Philippines because I needed the money to maintain my family. Working as a domestic helper I could pay the medical studies of my daughter, the education of my five brothers and sisters and the medical assistance of the cardio problems of my father. But it is difficult to explain the bitterness and the great sacrifices of our lives. We all feel very lonely. We live far away from our husbands, from our sons and from all our loving friends. We do not have our own family life nor a social or cultural environment. It is an immense sacrifice that we do not deserve, even if we are poor. We also suffer discrimination and abuse in our work during the long daily hours. We must have high school or university studies but we are treated as servants. In most cases we are more qualified than our Chinese employers. We have only two weeks of holidays every two years of work. Only every two years we can visit our sons, our family. On Sundays we are happy when we invade the open spaces of Hong Kong and meet together to remember our identity and our culture. It is the only day in the week that we can do our personal things like shopping, go to the bank to send our salary to our families, go to Church and send boxes back home full of clothing, shoes, books, toys. This is our only physical contact with them. We can laugh, sing, dance, eat and share between women our happiness, friendship and the solidarity that we miss in our domestic work. On Sunday we feel happy in foreign land. The parks and streets of the financial district of Hong Kong become Filipino territory, like the plazas of our little towns. The HSBC Bank is our cathedral and the cardboard casitas are our home. But we are homeless women. At 8 or 9 in the evening we have to return to our job. We cannot sleep at the houses of our employers.

Zur aktuellen Diskussion über Metropolräume in Europa hat das Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) neue Datengrundlagen entwickelt. Die Wissenschaftler stellen im Rahmen einer aktuellen Studie erstmals europaweit einheitliche, vergleichbare Daten zur räumlichen Verteilung von Metropolfunktionen zusammen.