Unfree : migrant domestic work in Arab states

Unfree : migrant domestic work in Arab states / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas.

"A stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system. In the United Arab Emirates, there is an employment sponsorship system known as the kafala. Migrant domestic workers within it must solely work for th...

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Main Author: Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Women household employees > United Arab Emirates > Social conditions.
Women foreign workers > United Arab Emirates > Social conditions.
Foreign workers, Filipino > United Arab Emirates > Social conditions.
Contract labor > United Arab Emirates.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is unfree labor?
  • Legal infantilization and the unfreedom of servitude
  • Managing vulnerable migrants
  • Mobilizing morality
  • Escaping servitude for the unfreedom of criminalization
  • Mobility pathways and the unfreedom of poverty
  • Conclusion: The moral project of unfree labor
  • Appendix A: Methodology : an ethnography of subjectification
  • Appendix B: Notes on human trafficking, forced labor, and slavery.

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