About this campaign
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Immigrant workers are responsible for growing local nail and hair salons into a booming multi-billion dollar industry. After the arrival of Vietnamese refugees in 1975, immigrant and refugee labor transformed the nail industry, making an inaccessible luxury an affordable service available to low- and middle-income clients while also partnering with culturally relevant and affirming hair salons.
Today, upwards of 70% of all nail salons in the US are family owned small businesses operated by Vietnamese Americans. Nail workers and salon owners are connected through established and intimate immigrant family & social circles. Our mothers, sisters, and daughters working in immigrant-owned nail salons are significant economic pillars financially supporting whole Vietnamese communities. Despite this, workers face challenges like limited-English proficiency, low education, precarious immigrant status, lack of labor protections and unrecognized or unvalued professional credentials.
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Since VietLead?s founding in 2015, our Health & Healing team committed to transform conditions of working-class immigrant and refugee community members through relationship building, accessible health & labor education, & direct services to help meet their material needs. Through receiving language and culturally accessible services, we have built relationships with dozens of Philadelphia?s nail salon workers who trust us to invest in the health and protection of their communities and families. Our team recognizes that providing direct services alone don?t address the root causes to health and income inequities in nail salons or increase the capacity for workers to have benefits: paid time off, healthcare, livable wages, childcare support, labor protections.
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In Philadelphia, organizers and community leaders have successfully organized groups of low-wage immigrant and BIPOC workers, like the Domestic Workers Alliance, Philly Black Worker Project. Currently, there is no container to convene and bring together the City?s nail salon workers and owners. By transforming and realizing safe and just conditions for Vietnamese nail salon workers and owners, we are able to uplift entire communities in Philadelphia.
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As the children of immigrant and refugee salon workers, we know that our livelihoods only exist as we know it because of the love, labor and sacrifices made by our matriarchs. Upon their resettlement in the U.S. after the Wars in Southeast Asia, our women and femme people were met with poverty, hardship, language barriers and inadequate resources from the government. In order to survive, our mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers sought accessible ways to have financial independence to ensure our families and whole communities could grow and thrive.
We were fed, clothed and educated by the hands of mothers who worked tirelessly to provide affordable beauty and gender affirming services to working class people. As adults now, we are witnessing the health and financial costs of this work that has sustained our community: daily exposures to unregulated chemicals that have long-term respiratory & reproductive health impacts and poor labor conditions including low wages and worker misclassification.
We dream of a future in which immigrant workers in the beauty industry can work safely and sustainably to continue creating a more beautiful world.
We are proud to be Salon Kids and we believe that all immigrant laborers in the beauty industry deserve safety, dignity and care.
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