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New piece by Prof. Maria Hwang in Open Democracy
![IGSF Professor Maria Hwang](/igsf/files/igsf/styles/fullwidth_breakpoints_theme_moriarty_small_1x/public/hwang.photo_.2018.2.jpg?itok=Ef1unLQP×tamp=1636062690)
Published: 4 November 2021
Professor Maria Hwang (Assistant Professor, IGSF and the Department of East Asian Studies) recently wrote an essay for Open Democracy. The piece is titled 鈥淓xit denied: women losing the right to leave in the Philippines.鈥 This essay explores how anti-trafficking policies harm women workers and curtail their freedom of movement. The full text is available on the .