“The migrant workers are the big buyers here,” he explains, referring to the Indonesian and South Asian immigrants who power the city’s construction projects and service businesses. “Buying clothes and phones and shoes and other things they actually use.” We pause at a far end of the market, where piles of beat-up shoes are laid out on tarps beside stacks of old jeans. Two Indonesian workers dressed in blue construction-crew uniforms are rummaging through the shoes. One holds four pairs. “They’ll bring them back home to Indonesia to sell,” Kenny says. Nostalgia-inducing school pins and
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