Encounters between migrants and citizens are generally presented as those between migrants and civil society organizations, or between migrants and their employers, sponsors, or government officials. Joey Ayoub shares the unique perspective he held as a Lebanese in Madagascar – as a citizen fr…
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Another Story of TB and Discrimination
November 4th, 2011
Recently, we reported Yanita’s experiences with the Gulf’s unfair and overzealous Tuberculosis (TB) deportation policies. Mark, a migrant worker from Manila, shares his own, similar encounters with the GCC’s TB laws below: Mark was first diagnosed with minimal pulmonary TB in September...
Meet the Migrant Workers Task Force
October 9th, 2011
The Migrant Workers Task Force (MWTF) is a volunteer driven organization that promotes migrant rights in Lebanon; compromised of ordinary Lebanese and non-Lebanese civilians, students, and migrants themselves, the Task Force powers several different programs, including language classes, fundraising ...
Interview with Ethiopian Migrant & Filmmaker Rahel Zegeye
October 2nd, 2011
Rahel Zegeye is a domestic worker in Lebanon, but that is not all she is: this is precisely the filmmaker’s message in her rising film “Beirut,” which delves into the personal lives of six fictional Ethiopian migrants. While Zegeye does not shy away from denunciating the severe mis...
Interview with the Saudi Ambassador to Nepal
August 23rd, 2011
Interviews Saudi Arabia Spotlight
Below is an interview conducted by Nepalese journalist Sanjeev Ghimire of Rajdhani Daily with the envoy of Saudi Arabia to Nepal (and Bangladesh)shortly after his meeting with Prime Minister Khanal. Ghimire interviewed the Saudi envoy in Kathmandu Dr. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Nepal Dr Abdu...
Elementary School Students in Lebanon Tackle Abuse of Domestic Workers
May 29th, 2011
Abusive employers Housemaids Interviews Lebanon Racism
Below is an interview we conducted with a group of elementary school students from Lebanon who chose to focus on human rights of domestic workers in their class project. For their research, the children interviewed maids about the abuse they suffer and sought to understand the causes of this abuse. ...
Migrant Workers in the Gulf: A Historical Perspective (video)
May 16th, 2011
Bahrain Gulf Housemaids Interviews Saudi Arabia Slavery Suicide UAE
Below is a great video interview of The Real News Network with Dr. Adam Hanieh about the historical changes that occurred within the working class of the Gulf region since the 1950s. The program also discusses the recent popular uprising in Bahrain, the tensions created by the al-Khalifa regime̵...
Al-Jazeera highlights lack of protection of Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East
October 20th, 2010
Abusive employers Gulf Housemaids Interviews Jordan News Saudi Arabia Videos Working conditions
This week, Al-Jazeera English filed two reports from the Philippines about Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East and the lack of protection offered to them. The first report includes interviews with families of deceased Filipino domestic workers. It includes an interview with family members of...
Photographer Exposes the Unseen Lives of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
August 21st, 2010
Abusive employers Documentation Housemaids Interviews Lebanon Working conditions
Below is an interview with Matthew Cassel, an American photographer and journalist based in Lebanon about his photography project Unseen Lives: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon (see slideshow at the bottom of this post). In the interview Matthew describes how he was able to get close to the migra...
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