“The Paper that you Have in Your Hand is My Freedom”: Migrant Domestic Work and the Sponsorship (Kafala) System in Lebanon

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Conflict, war and violence
  • Political situation, repression and regime transitions
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Labour migration
  • Irregular migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-economic consequences

  • (Sexual) Exploitation

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on irregular migration

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Other

Geographies

• Scope

  • National

• UN Countries

  • Lebanon