They'd beat us with whatever is available to them’: Exploitation and abuse of Ghanaian domestic workers in the Middle East
Date
2021
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Publisher
International Migration.
Abstract
Generic accounts of pervasive cases of exploitation and abuse
against migrant domestic workers in the Middle East exist in the
extant literature. However, very little is known about the breadth,
depth and gendered nature of abuses experienced by female
migrants from especially the sub-Saharan African region. Abuses
of the rights of sub-Saharan Africans are under-represented and
under-theorised. This paper interrogates the question what is
the nature, extent and severity of exploitation and abuse against
female Ghanaian domestic workers in the Middle East? Using
data from mixed-methods research, this paper adopts the
framework of structural, symbolic and interpersonal violence to
examine the range of abuses against domestic workers and the
context within which these abuses take place
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Research Article
Keywords
Generic accounts o, sub-Saharan African region