Unfree : migrant domestic work in Arab states /

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 their emp...

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Bibliographic Details
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.