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Notes
1.e would like to thank Hana Jaber for her contributions to our discussions W
on migrant domestic labor. Although not a formal participant in the proj-
ect, she organized our meeting in Amman and has actively participated in
all of our meetings.
2.s contribution is the outcome of the SSRC-funded collaborative research Thi
project “Migrant Domestic Workers: Becoming Visible in the Public
Sphere?” and part of a larger program on reconceptualizing public spheres
in the Middle East. The mainstay of our project consisted of research visits
to four locations in the Middle East: Istanbul, Beirut, Dubai and Amman.
The research visits were followed by a meeting in Indonesia, a major send-
ing country, organized by Irwan Abdullah (Centre for Cross-Cultural and
Religious Studies, Gadja Mada University, Jokyakarta). Because Amman
did not end up as a formal part of the project, it was not included in this
chapter.
3.avid McMurray, “Recent Trends in Middle East Migration,” D Middle East
Report 29, no. 2 (1999): 16–20.
4.or example, from the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, the propor- F
tion of international migrants who were women increased from 15% in the
1970s to 60–80% in the 1990s. See Michele Gamburd, The Kitchen Spoon’s
Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka’s Migrant Housemaids (Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2000).
5.ee Annelies Moors, “Economics: Migrant Domestic Labor: Central Arab S
States, Egypt and Yemen,” and Rima Sabban, “Economics: Paid Domestic
Labor: The Gulf and Saudi Arabia,” in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic
Cultures (EWIC 4) (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 220–222 and 222–224, respectively.
6.ee Rima Sabban, “Broken Spaces, Bounded Realities: Foreign Female S
Domestic Workers in the UAE,” dissertation, The American University,
Washington, DC, 1996. See also Rima Sabban, “Migrant Women in the
United Arab Emirates: The Case of Female Domestic Workers,” GENPROM
Working Paper no. 10 (Geneva: ILO, 2002). See also Bridget Anderson,
Doing the Dirty Work: The Global Politics of Domestic Labor (London: Zed
Books, 2000).
7.ana Jaber, “Manille-Amman, une filière de l’emploi domestique: Parcours, H
dispositifs et relai de recrutement,” in Mondes de mouvements, migrants et