Eni Lestari in Conversation with Annalee Lepp

Abstract

Eni Lestari is an Indonesian domestic worker and migrant rights activist who has been working in Hong Kong since 1999. She is the current chairperson of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA), the first global alliance of grassroots migrants’ organizations, founded in Hong Kong in 2008. She is also the current chairperson of the Association of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong (ATKI). Lestari is also a current board member of the Global Alliance Against Trafficking of Women (GAATW). In January 2016 she sat down with Annalee Lepp, Chair of the Department of Gender Studies at the University of Victoria, to talk about her experiences as a migrant worker and activist.