many of Kwan’s subjects recount the ways the lives they sought in migration

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Between economic deprivation and racial discrimination, many of Kwan’s subjects recount the ways the lives they sought in migration often materialized as fraught compromises.

Is a relative pronoun (which or that) omitted within the bold words?

 

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Between economic deprivation and racial discrimination, many of Kwan’s subjects recount the ways the lives they sought in migration often materialized as fraught compromises.

Is a relative pronoun (which or that) omitted within the bold words?

You could also say 'Between economic deprivation and racial discrimination, many of Kwan’s subjects recount the ways IN WHICH the lives THAT they sought in migration often materialized as fraught compromises'.

 

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Between economic deprivation and racial discrimination, many of Kwan’s subjects recount the ways the lives they sought in migration often materialized as fraught compromises.

The basic pattern is:

the way something does something

 

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What are "fraught compromises"?

 

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What are "fraught compromises"?

Difficult/worrisome trade-offs?

 

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Difficult/worrisome trade-offs?

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An example of a fraught compromise would be an employer agreeing to hire a migrant on condition that it will be done "under the table", i.e. with little or no social protection for the latter.

 

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A Documentarian Travels the World Asking: ‘Have You Eaten Yet?’ (Published 2022)

From the Arctic to the Amazon, Cheuk Kwan traces a diaspora through Chinese restaurants owned and operated by immigrant families.

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