UPDATES TO KAFALA
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July 17, 2020 | English
Ghanaian woman 'Sarah', 26, is telling her story for the first time since fleeing the Kafala system in Lebanon, under which she suffered constant beatings and sexual harassment.
July 16, 2020 | English
This is a conversation with Daryn Howland. She’s a Beirut-based researcher who recently finished her MA thesis entitled “racist capital: the racialization of migrant labor under the kafala system in Beirut”.
July 16, 2020 | English
Ariwolo Olamide Temitope, 31, arrived in Abuja late on Saturday, July 11; after spending six weeks detained in Lebanon on charges of theft and attempted murder that were filed by her former employers.Temitope in late April escaped the home of Mahmoud Zahran and Feyzeh Diab after they accused her of stealing a phone and; according to Temitope, Zahran punched her in the face.
July 16, 2020 | English
The Kafala system is supposed to support people in domestic or construction employment - but it is often exploited and misused.
July 15, 2020 | English
Ironically, oligarchy-affiliated media platforms, including its educated and respectable figures, blame migrant workers for exporting US dollars out of the Lebanese market, while failing to note how the same workers augment the wealth of investors who exploit them.
July 15, 2020 | English
Continuing his examination of migration in the COVID world, Edwin Tran examines how the pandemic has exposed risks in Lebanon and the wider region’s Kafala immigration system, and how this has resulted in extremely precarious positions for migrant workers amongst the collapse of the Lebanese Lira, which has rendered their meagre earnings almost worthless.
July 14, 2020 | English
A Nigerian domestic worker who documented her abuse by former employers in Lebanon has arrived back home following a months-long ordeal that saw her arrested and accused of attempted murder.
July 13, 2020 | English
Western analysts often regard the Gulf as a strange anomaly among capitalist states. In fact, it has the same underlying dynamics as capitalist countries elsewhere, and it is powerfully shaping the politics of the Middle East.
July 11, 2020 | English
More than fifty women were abandoned in front of the Ethiopian embassy under the blazing sun, in a deliberate process of desertion by their employers (sponsors) under whom they had worked for years. They were left stranded in front of the embassy without receiving due salaries and without being provided the bare minimum of food and health security.
July 10, 2020 | Arabic
أشكال العنصرية مختلفة ومتنوعة: ما الذي يجمع #BlackLivesMatter في الولايات المتّحدة بمواجهة مختلف أنواع العنف ضدّ العمّال الأجانب والعاملات المهاجرات اللواتي يعانين من نظام الكفالة في لبنان.