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Growing Syrian women domestic work force in Lebanon
30-12-2019
In its issue of December 27, Al Akhbar daily featured the growing phenomenon of domestic service in Syria. This phenomenon is not unusual, the newspaper said, but has expanded lately as a result of the war in the neighboring country and the ensuing economic and social changes. For more insight on the subject, Al Akhbar spoke to Umm Samer who dropped her job as a lawyer to work as a domestic worker. “I have children, and things have been horrible after the death of my husband. My salary was not enough to carry on so I decided to work in housekeeping. I travelled to Latakia for this reason where I am incognito; besides, living costs there are much lower,” Umm Samer recounted. Al Akhbar reported that the increasing number of local domestic workers and the larger demand on them by well-off households, amid the high costs of foreign labor, has forced a group of ‘established’ domestic workers to regulate the profession. The newspaper mentioned Umm Anas, a woman in her sixties, who could no longer work in domestic service and chose to be a broker providing work for other women seeking this kind of profession. Umm Mamduh, for her part, said this job does not often secure a stable income, with many women forced to work at more than one employer during a short period of time. Others told Al Akhbar’s reporter that this work is ‘unsafe’, lamenting sexual harassment and assault attempts against some domestic workers. (more on the feature in Arabic: https://bit.ly/2SEOjBM). (Al Akhbar, December 27, 2019)
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