Workers Far from Home
These stories illustrate the long-lived realities of migrant domestic workers who seek making a living for themselves and their families in Lebanon under the Kafala system.
In the context of global, regional and local advocacy, women’s stories and realities–in particular young women’s and adolescents’ realities– are almost always missing from negotiations and decision-making in the hallways of power. Our experiences are often reduced to keywords, trendy concepts, and wordsmithing in resolutions and agreements. And our challenges, successes and experiences, oversimplified in reports and numbers. Our Lived Realities explores women and young people’s experiences in their own voices, and how those conditions affect their autonomy, sexuality, wellbeing, pleasure and decision-making.
These stories illustrate the long-lived realities of migrant domestic workers who seek making a living for themselves and their families in Lebanon under the Kafala system.
South-based feminist news, events, analysis and reflections.