The Standard Unified Contract for Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon — Recognition of Rights and Responsibilities or Facilitation of ‘Modern Slavery’?

Rowitz, Laura Elena (25 May 2023). The Standard Unified Contract for Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon — Recognition of Rights and Responsibilities or Facilitation of ‘Modern Slavery’?

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In this blog post, I portray the Standard Unified Contract for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. In shedding light on the contract’s provisions, I aim to contextualise it within the kafāla system governing migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, and to raise the topic of contract slavery.

Item Type:

Other

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften

Graduate School:

Graduate School of the Arts (GSA) [discontinued]
Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities (GSAH)

UniBE Contributor:

Rowitz, Laura Elena

Subjects:

200 Religion > 290 Other religions
900 History > 950 History of Asia

Funders:

[4] Swiss National Science Foundation

Projects:

[UNSPECIFIED] Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources (Grant no. 208124)

Language:

English

Submitter:

Laura Elena Rowitz

Date Deposited:

13 Jun 2023 16:23

Last Modified:

14 Jun 2023 15:22

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Modern Slavery, Contract Slavery, Lebanon, Kafala, Domestic Work, Asymmetrical Dependency

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/183376

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/183376

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