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.
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Other |
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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) Graduate School of the Humanities (GSH) |
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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