With the recent economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated Lebanon’s downward turn into a long-term crisis, and the more recent Beirut explosion, migrant domestic workers have been forced into positions of extreme vulnerability.
At the time of writing, a number of migrant domestic workers are attempting to leave Lebanon through their embassies or consulates—many of whom no longer have access to their passports as they have been withheld by their employers.
Furthermore, groups such as “This is Lebanon”–a migrant activist collective that came to prominence for publishing the info of Lebanese abusers on its social media—is now campaigning for the evacuation of workers under the hashtag #SendUsHome.