Migrant Construction and Domestic Workers in the Arab Gulf States: Modern - Day Slaves?

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dc.contributor.advisorBunting, M. Anne
dc.creatorChidiac, Omaya
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T15:14:19Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T15:14:19Z
dc.date.copyright2014-12-17
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T15:14:19Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the conditions of migrant construction and domestic workers in the Arab Gulf. I explore literatures on migrant labour, precariousness, and slavery. I also look at international and domestic legal instruments as well as data produced by several human rights organizations. This thesis shows how the mechanisms involved in the migration of migrant construction and domestic workers exacerbate vulnerability and precariousness. I examine the ways in which social locations including gender and race play a role in discrimination against migrant construction and domestic workers in the Arab Gulf, thus assisting conditions of slavery to arise. My aim is not to generalize the situation of migrant construction and domestic workers in the Arab Gulf as amounting to slavery. Rather, I argue that migrant construction and domestic workers in the Arab Gulf enduring conditions tantamount to possession fall under the category of slavery in view of the 1926 Slavery Convention as interpreted by international guidelines and scholars.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/29982
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectInternational law
dc.subject.keywordsMigrant domestic worker
dc.subject.keywordsMigrant construction worker
dc.subject.keywordsArab Gulf
dc.subject.keywordsKafala sponsorship system
dc.subject.keywordsModern day slavery
dc.subject.keywordsSlavery
dc.subject.keywordsUnfree labour
dc.subject.keywordsPrecarious employment
dc.subject.keywordsMigrant labour
dc.subject.keywordsHuman rights
dc.subject.keywordsRacialization
dc.subject.keywordsOthering
dc.titleMigrant Construction and Domestic Workers in the Arab Gulf States: Modern - Day Slaves?
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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