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• Labour (Lebanon)

  Lebanon & South Asian workers: The Kafala System is How Capitalism Is Driving Modern Slavery

  23 June 2018, by MADAN Aman

  South Asian workers in the Middle East are systematically dehumanised and othered in a society where whiteness is considered the ideal.
  Ramco trucks doing rounds around the city to collect trash. Credit: Aman Madan.
  Beirut: I sit across from Raghav at one of Beirut’s numerous Sri Lankan (…)

• Labour (Lebanon)

  Abused Ethiopian domestic worker is “the poster girl for kafala” in Lebanon

  22 May 2018, by MASSENA Florence

  No matter how many times one hears about the abuse and exploitation of migrant domestic workers in the Middle East, the stories do not become any less shocking, as the harrowing case of Lensa Lelisa proves. This March, the 21-year-old Ethiopian domestic worker working in Beirut, Lebanon, made (…)