Rip-off Factories is a particular multimedia and podcast collection by The Dialog that explores the inside workings of Southeast Asia’s brutal rip-off compounds.
The Dialog’s digital storytelling and podcast groups collaborated with three researchers: Ivan Franceschini, a lecturer in Chinese language Research on the College of Melbourne; Ling Li, a PhD candidate at Ca’ Foscari College of Venice; and Mark Bo, an impartial researcher.
The researchers have spent the previous few years interviewing almost 100 survivors of those compounds and documenting the rise of the business in Southeast Asia for a forthcoming e-book.
Rip-off Factories will unfold throughout three multimedia articles and three podcast episodes this week. We’ll replace this web page as extra is printed.
Half 1
Our first article explores how persons are lured into the business and what life is like contained in the compounds, the place scammers are pressured to work lengthy hours and are sometimes subjected to violence.
And in our first podcast episode, No expertise required, our researchers journey to a village in Cambodia referred to as Chrey Thom to see what these compounds appear like. And we hear from two survivors, a Ugandan man we’re calling George and a Malaysian girl we’re calling Lee, about how they had been recruited into compounds in Laos and Myanmar.
The Dialog contacted all the businesses talked about on this collection for a remark, besides Jinshui, which we couldn’t contact. We didn’t obtain a response from any of them.
Credit
The podcast collection was written and produced by Gemma Ware with manufacturing help from Katie Flood and Mend Mariwany. Sound design by Michelle Macklem. Leila Goldstein was our producer in Cambodia and Halima Athumani recorded for us in Uganda. Hui Lin helped us with Chinese language translation. Pictures by Roun Ry, KDA, Halima Athumani and Ivan Franceschini.
Justin Bergman at The Dialog in Australia edited the articles within the collection and Matt Garrow labored on the graphical components of the tales. Collection oversight and modifying assist from Ashlynne McGhee.
