Organizing the Unorganized Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

Organizing the Unorganized Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

Farah Kobaissy

Department

Cairo Papers in Social Science

Program

Cairo Papers in Social Science

Description

This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality. The author situates this struggle within the larger scene of the labor union ‘movement’ in the country, and discusses the contribution of women’s rights organizations in rendering visible cases of abuse against migrant domestic workers. She argues that the ‘death’ of class politics has made women’s rights organizations address migrant domestic worker issues as a separate labor category, further contributing to their production as an ‘exception’ under neoliberalism.

ISBN

9781617977329

Publication Date

Fall 2016

Publisher

American University in Cairo Press

City

Cairo

Keywords

Lebanon, migrant, workers, women's rights, labor

Series

Cairo Papers in Social Science 34(3)

Organizing the Unorganized Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

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