Week7:Audio
Juliet’s final project is about the influx of mainland mothers to Hong Kong. The above photo took by her is the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which receives a steady flow of women from mainland China.
Researching on the topic for her master project, Juliet found the phenomena that more and more mainland mothers’ influx these years has brought many social problems to Hong Kong. For example, because hospital wards crowed with mainland parturient, the local mothers-to-be were protesting in the street for their own right. Besides the impact of local people’s benefits, Juliet also thinks that the government’s attitude towards the mainland mothers’ issue is considerable. Under the pressure from the prevailing voice in the city, the government enforced a new measure on February 1 this year to limit the current influx. But the measure didn’t work well; new term of protest is under planning.
Juliet exploring the issue considers the social discussions and conflicts brought by mothers’ have an inevitable relationship with people’s attitude changes in this city over the past ten years since handover. She holds the opinion that Hong Kong people start to pay more attention to the government policies and actions meanwhile become aware to express their own opinions compared with ten years ago.
She has already collected much information about the topic and interviewed some mothers from mainland as well as the local mothers-to-be to complete her project. Here comes the audio that Juliet talked about her new media final project.
