Publics, Politics and Participation

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proposed standard contract is to be signed not only by the employer and
the employee but also by the recruitment agency and to be ratified by the
Jordanian Ministry of Labor and the embassy of the employee. While there
are a number of innovative provisions about labor and residency per-
mits (responsibility with employer), about holding the passport (right of
employee) and about the payment of wages (on time), the provision con-
cerning one rest day a week states that the employee shall not leave the resi-
dence without the permission of the employer. See Ray Jureidini, “Human
Rights and Foreign Contract Labor: Some Implications for Management
and Regulation in Arab Countries,” in Arab Migration in a Globalized
World (Geneva: International Organization for Migration, 2004), 201–216.
20.ancy Fraser, “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the N
Critique of Actually Existing Democracy,” in Habermas and the Public
Sphere, edited by Craig Calhoun (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), 123.
21.eonore Davidoff, “Mastered for Life: Servant and Wife in Victorian and L
Edwardian England,” in Worlds Between: Historical Perspectives on Gender
and Class, edited by Leonore Davidoff (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1995);
Anderson, Doing the Dirty Work.
22.aren Hansen, “Domestic Service: What’s in it for Anthropology?” K Reviews
in Anthropology 16, no. 1 (1991): 47–62.
23.or an elaboration of the notion of a “politics of presence,” see Annelies F
Moors, “Representing Family Law Debates in Palestine: Gender and the
Politics of Presence,” in Media, Religion and the Public Sphere, edited by
Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2006), 115–132.



  1. The forms of publicness mentioned here—the market and the church—are
    both excluded from Habermas’s notion of the modern public sphere that is
    seen as separate from the state, the economy and religion.
    25.eniz Yükseker, “Trust and Gender in a Transnational Market: The Public D
    Culture of Laleli, Istanbul,” Public Culture 16, no. 1 (2004): 47–65.
    26.ema Erder and Selmin Kaska, S Irregular Migration in Turkey and Trafficking
    Women: The Case of Turkey (Geneva: International Organization for
    Migration, 2003).
    27.at in Lebanon NGOs are allowed to act on behalf of migrant domestic Th
    workers is at least in part the result of pressure by the U.S. State Department
    that had condemned Lebanon in 2002 for not doing enough to stop human

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