Maidinbeirut




This blog is dedicated to women from Sri lanka and Ethiopia working as domestic workers in Beirut, Lebanon. These women take upon themselves great voyages to foreign countries in the hope of a better future. Their courage and endurance is outstanding.

As time passes, the issues covered in this blog have expanded to cover other kinds of specific women's work like sex work, historical ways of describing the plight of women: white slavery, human traffic or modern slavery as well identitarian politics and gender...

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Conference in London

The media and NGOs have raised awareness of sex trafficking in recent years, but does it serve the interests of migrant sex workers to suggest they have been trafficked, or does it collude in their criminalisation and deportation? Should our priority be to give migrant women in the sex industry more control over their own lives, or to stop the traffic? Speakers: Laura María Agustín, author of Sex at the Margins and a former educator working with [...]
IOM

Found in Infokiosques, an informative booklet on the IOM. And even if is dated back to 2003, it is very difficult to find critical information on this management machine. The International Organisation for Migration has been "managing" migration since the 2nd World War on behalf of its member states. On its website there is no referal to the right of movement of people, who are seen as goods to be managed by the state, and able to flow back and forth suiting the necessities of [...]
Sex on the margins

In a time where ideas on prostitution, migration and trafficking are so overtly reductionistic and ideological, Laura Agustín's blog Border thinking on migration, culture, economy, sex and trafficking is a helpful source of complex and contextualising analysis from somebody who has been working for years on the issue. Her critique of the rescue industry is also warmly welcomed!
Pro-Fem

Times are strange.  Sarah Palin, a right-wing politician, pro-life, pro-abstinence, pro-arms, pro-capital punishment, and creationist is supposedly a...feminist? A model to follow? Representative of many women in the US? a future leader of her country? Palin seems a character escaped from John Water's film with her college beauty queen allure, her pregnant teen daughter and her arms fetish. She defines herself as an average hockey mom, [...]
Sex Work is Different from Sex Slavery, aver Carnal Toilers

By MARTHA ROSENBERG Nicholas Kristof was baffled. A year after the New York Times columnist rescued teenaged Cambodian prostitute Srey Mom from a Poipet brothel by purchasing her freedom for $203, she was back in the brothel. Voluntarily. In fact, she wouldn't even be rescued initially without her cell phone and jewelry which Kristof had to buy back for her. Didn't she want to be saved? Not necessarily said organizers from Sex Worker Outreach [...]

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