LUCÍA ABELLÁN - Madrid - 16/10/2007 Las empleadas de hogar deberán firmar un contrato con sus empleadores y tendrán derecho a que sea fijo. El Gobierno prepara una norma, con intención de que entre en vigor en 2008, para ampliar los derechos de este colectivo,...
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I just finished reading "Diary of a Maid in the Gulf" written by Dr. Mohammed al-Taunagi. I do not really think it will get translated into English soon, so you won't mind if I tell you how it ends, do you? Juana, a coy, Christian Filipino girl pays with...
Daughters of the Republic A talk with Sihem Habchi, vice-president of "Ni Putes, Ni Soumises" Tension is in the air in the headquarters of "ni putes ni soumises" in Paris . The women and men sitting side by side in the crammed offices have only one thing...
We edited the first images we have. They still need context, but some of them are very beautiful: an Ethiopian Christian mass in Beirut filled with dancing a singing women celebrating St. Gabriel, a kindergarten full of migrant children showing a form...
In June 2003, Walid, Steph and me went to an Ethiopian religious ceremony, the festivity of St. Gabriel in a church in Beirut. As the ethiopian community in Lebanon consists almost exclusively of women, the ceremony included but one man: the priest, especially...
“All nations that are resolute in the fight to end human trafficking have a partner in the United States...And together we will bring forth a world of fuller hope, a world where people enjoy the full blessings of their God-given liberty.” Secretary Condoleezza...
Lately, I am getting more and more confused about the concept of human traffic as applied to women migrating to work. What is the difference between human traffic and smuggling? What is the difference between human traffic and abusive work conditions...
Productive work produces profit in the capitalist system. But because workers need to eat, sleep and reproduce themselves to ensure that also tomorrow they will be able to contribute productively to society they need someone to take care of these domestic...
Reem Haddad In what can be termed a modern-day slave trade, Sri Lankan women arrive in Lebanon only to find themselves abused, imprisoned, raped, hungry, defenseless and alone. Siriani P., 27, came to Beirut in a desperate attempt to save her family from...
MAID FOR SALE BONNE À VENDRE Dima Al-Joundi Lebanon / France, 2006 colour, HD, 53' min. Original Language(s): Sinhala/French/English/Arabic Subtitles: French/English To flee from their country's extreme poverty and provide for their family's survival,...
Migrant Workers in by Michael Young 2000 The objective of this study is to examine the conditions of migrant workers in , their roles, problems, networks, and future. It is inevitable that such a study will, in many respects, say as much about Lebanese...
Merip Monica Smith (Monica Smith is completing her M.A. in geography at the University of Colorado in Boulder . Her thesis is on domestic labor migration, with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Middle East .) Twenty-two year old Leela made a promise to...
Jureidini Ray (2003). "L’échec de la protection de l’État : les domestiques étrangers au Liban". Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales , Volume 19 , Numéro 3 , p. 95-127. Accessible en ligne à l'URL : http://remi.revues.org/document485.html...
Servants of Globalization Women, Migration, and Domestic Work Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Servants of Globalization is a poignant and often troubling study of migrant Filipina domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the mothering and caretaking...
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...
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...
By MARTHA ROSENBERG N icholas 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...
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?...
Promised Land 2004 Amos Gitaï A night in the Sinai desert. A group of men and women keep warm around a camp fire under the moonlight. The women come from Eastern Europe . The men, who normally walk their herds in the area, are Bedouins. Tomorrow, they...
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...
I will consider the most challenging critiques to anti-trafficking interventions, which, not surprisingly, come in an organised form precisely from those who are normally excluded from the debate: sex workers rights’ groups. This dissent is based on two...
The rumeur described in this book spread in 1969 in the town of Orleans and consisted in a story whereby innocent girls would be drugged in Jewish clothes shops and dragged through an underground tunnel system to be sold as sex slaves. Contacted by anti-racist...
Farzaneh Milani, professor of Persian literature and women’s studies at the University of Virginia, is also a Carnegie Fellow. On Women’s Captivity in the Islamic World In the unprecedented flourishing of writings about Islam in the United States in recent...
Our work for the last three years has never explicitly worked on the issue of human traffic or esclavage moderne. It has always been focused on the experience of migrant women, leaving their countries to work in other countries. But I can assure that...
