Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Artículo de periódico

"The Paper that You Have in Your Hand is My Freedom": Migrant Domestic Work and the Sponsorship (Kafala) System in Lebanon

Fecha

2013

Autores

Amrita Pande

Resumen

In this paper, I argue that the portrayal of violations of MDW rights as abuse of one set of women by another is inherently problematic on several fronts. It privatizes the structural problem of workers' and immigrant rights violations, delegates it to the household, and absolves the state of its responsibility. Moreover, the focus on abusive employers takes attention away from teh root of the problem - the inherently exploitative system of migration and recruitment in the region, the sponsorship system. The sponsorship system not only creates conditions for much of these violations, but also systematically produces a new population of readily exploitative worker - the category of "illegal workers". Oral histories and interviews with individual workers are employed to analyze the process by which illegal workers are "produced" in Lebanon. Finally, focus group discussions highlight critical policy recommendations made by the workers themselves, which address the systemic bases of their exploitation in Lebanon.

Journal title

International Migration Review

Volumen

47

Número

2

Page numbers

414 - 441

Editor

University of Cape Town

Los sectores económicos

Occupations in services - Domestic work

Tipos de contenido

Casos documentados de abuso

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Relevancia geográfica

Regional relevance

Idiomas

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