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Moukarbel conclude that “the administrative, legal and working conditions
of Sri Lankan domestic workers in Lebanon can be described as a contem-
porary form of slavery.” See their “Female Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in
Lebanon,” 603.
41.ay Jureidini, “The Failure of State Protection: Household Guest Workers R
in Lebanon,” European Review of International Migration 19, no. 3: 95–127.
Annelies Moors and Marina de Regt, “Gender and Irregular Migration:
Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East,” paper presented at the con-
ference on Gender, Borders and Migration since 1850, Leiden, 2007.



  1. See Gamburd, Kitchen Spoon’s Handle, 209. She deals with the circulation of
    “horror stories” about the ways in which Sri Lankan domestics were treated
    in the Gulf and points to the need to investigate which actors such stories
    actually empower and which political actions they advocate.
    43.ee Ferhunde Özbay, “Public Visibility of Slaves and Servants in the S
    Ottoman Society,” paper presented at the SSRC Workshop on Historical
    Trajectories, Istanbul, 2003.

  2. Özbay, “Invisible Members of Istanbul Households.”

  3. Sabban, “Migrant Women in the United Arab Emirates.”
    46.n countries with high rates of unemployment, such as Jordan, poor local I
    women have also been criticized for their reluctance to work as domestics,
    while migrant women are still brought in.
    47.ima Sabban, “Domestic Workers and Media Discourse of Inclusion and R
    Exclusion in the UAE,” paper presented at the SSRC conference on New
    Public Spheres in the Middle East, Beirut, 2004.
    48.erhunde Özbay, “From Slavery to Global Domestic Workers: The Case of F
    Turkey,” paper presented at the SSRC workshop, Amman, 2004.
    49.ay Jureidini, “Sexuality and the Servant: An Exploration of Arab Images R
    of the Sexuality of Domestic Maids Living in the Household,” in Sexuality
    in the Arab World, edited by Samir Khalaf and John Gagnon (London: Saqi
    Books, 2006), 130–151.
    50.eem Saad, “Shame, Reputation and Egypt’s Lovers: A Controversy over R
    the Nation’s Image,” Visual Anthropology 10, nos. 2–4 (1998): 401–412.
    51.ichael Warner, “Publics and Counterpublics,” M Public Culture 14, no. 1
    (2002): 86.

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