Page 1 opens with this turn: "Filipina domestic worker, employed in
Riyadh: 'Really they are good to me. If I say I need rest, they
give me rest.' And if they were not so good to you, if you would
have some problem with your employer, where would you go?] 'Madam,
I cannot go anywhere, I am not allowed to go outside. I cannot go
to the embassy. I will just cry in my room and pray.'" This book
explores the situations and possible conflicts faced by the worker
far from home, having signed a contract written in a foreign
language, her passport held by her employer, and with limited power
to be a witness in court. DOMESTIC WORKERS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND THE
EMIRATES is a new socio-legal study of pressing questions of human
rights, contractual consent, transnational markets, and social
policy: Which factors influence the emergence and character of
conflicts in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates between domestic workers and their employers, the social
and legal norms to which both parties refer, and the related
imbalance of power? In what way and to what extent do domestic
workers and their employers refer to Islamic, customary,
contractual, and formal legal norms? Do conflicts concern
disagreement over norms, or disputes regarding behavior contrary to
the norms upon which both parties agree? Which factors influence
the norms to which both parties in conflicts refer? Which party is
able to enforce its own norms or to act contrary to norms on which
both parties agree, and which factors influence the balance of
power? Vlieger explores such questions by using a grounded-theory
methodology of extensive field research and revealing interviews
with workers, employers, employment agencies, human rights
organizations, and governmental officials. She exposes the dilemmas
of the people and institutions affected. Finally, she proposes
pragmatic solutions to address the most excessive vulnerabilities
and imbalances. Her book is supported with scholarly research - but
accessible and interesting to the general reader, as well as to
academics, journalists, and human rights activists.
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