Achieving Accountability for Migrant Domestic Worker Abuse

Vulnerability, Legal Protection and Work Conditions of Domestic ...

Previous studies on international migrant domestic workers have highlighted the vulnerability to exploitation and human right abuse of domestic workers ( Lutz ...

Accountability for forced labor in a globalized economy Lessons and ...

25 In addition to labor abuses, many domestic workers face physical and ... Forced labor and other extreme forms of labor exploitation of migrant workers.

The Dirty Side of Domestic Work: An Underground Economy and the ...

Illegitimacy of Care Work and the Exploitation of Migrant Workers, 18 GEO. IMMIGR. L.J. 159, 160 (2003). 3 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, HIDDEN IN THE HOME: ABUSE OF ...

Responding to the Structural Violence of Migrant Domestic Work

depth exploration of sensitive topics related to abuse, exploitation, and hopes to achieve ... Hidden Away: Abuses against Migrant Domestic Workers in the. UK.

COVID-19 Impact on Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the ...

Their economic vulnerability puts them at high risk of and sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment by landlords and others (Qiblawi, T. 2020).

Home from Home: Migrant Domestic Workers and the International ...

Live-in domestic workers have little control over their hours of work and little protection against verbal, sexual, and physical abuse and other forms of ...

A Report on Systemic Investigation into the Plight of Kenyan Migrant ...

According to various media reports, some domestic workers recruited to Saudi. Arabia by private employment agencies have experienced abuses or mistreatment in ...

The case for an increased focus on wage theft against migrant workers

Nevertheless, estimates of the scale of wage violations suggest that they are one of the most significant forms of labour exploitation, costing low-wage workers ...

The Future of Work for Domestic Workers in the United States

Precariously employed immigrant workers experience even greater risk for wage theft violations, and undocumented immigrant women are the most ...

Domestic/Care Work and Severe Exploitation. The Limits of Italian ...

In Italy, their presence in this sector is very important, making them particularly susceptible to abuse and exploitation. Domestic/care workers are a gendered ...

About Us - Migrant Workers Action

In order to achieve sustainable and genuine change MWA works through three layers of tackling the human rights abuses against MDWs in Lebanon. By Advocating for ...

myanmar domestic workers - UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Notwithstanding the ban, women's migration for domestic work continues, as do cases of abuse and exploitation. This report considers the situation of women ...

End Kafala: Justice for Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

Exploitation and other abuse can have a devasting impact on the mental health of any individual. In the case of domestic workers, especially ...

migrant domestic worker precarity and the management of unfree ...

Critical scholars have argued that workplace health hazards like abuse and exploitation are not only related to interpersonal factors, such as individual ...

Equal Rights for Domestic Workers - Migrant-Rights.org

These dynamics creates situations ripe for exploitation. Common abuses include: Working excessive hours with few breaks and no overtime compensation ...

Migrant Domestic Work and the Sponsorship (Kafala) System in Leb

the abusive Arab "Madam" exploiting her migrant domestic worker. The portrayal of violations of migrant domestic worker (MDW) rights as abuse of one set of ...

Diplomatic Immunity and the Abuse of Domestic Workers

Chuang, Achieving. Accountability for Migrant Domestic Worker Abuse, 88 N.C. L. REV. 1627 (2010); TIFFANY WILLIAMS,. NAT'L DOMESTIC WORKER'S ...

EMOTIONAL ABUSE OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN ...

susceptible to all forms of abuse, including exploitation, forced overtime, emotional and physical abuse and more. The blending of MDWs' ...

Migrant Domestic Workers' Community Organizing within the ...

We discussed how the Kafala system is gendered and the ways in which discriminative policy relates to the exploitation, abuse, and exclusion ...

Trouble at Home: Domestic Workers Speak Out Against Exploitation ...

Trouble at Home: Domestic Workers Speak Out Against Exploitation and Abuse ... Too often they endure racial/ethnic discrimination, physical and ...