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Deportation of battered Kenyan MWDW because of Kafala
17-7-2018
Notwithstanding the latest decision by the General Security to suspend the deportation of the Kenyan migrant domestic worker Shamila and her national who were beaten in the neighborhood of Burj Hammoud last June (c.f: https://bit.ly/2LiXSTE), Shamila was reportedly deported on Sunday, according to the Legal Agenda following up the case, while noting that, the court hearings on the incident are still ongoing. The Agenda stressed that Shamila’s expulsion was made possible supported by the Kafala (sponsorship) system which relinquishes the fate of MWDWs to their sponsors. The latter, a woman in this case, has refused to waive Shamila’s kafala, demanding USD 3000 for bailing her out. When the amount was not paid, the employer booked a plane ticket to force her to leave the country. On the other hand, Al Mustaqbal newspaper pointed to the famous Dora Roundabout which becomes every weekend a meeting place for MWDWs from different African and Asian nationalities. The visitor, Al Mustaqbal wrote, pictures himself outside Lebanon and travels with the dialects, colors and traditions of Dora Sunday street goers, namely to India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and others. There, visitors can discover various fashion, food, jewelry, beauty and hairdressing parlors which characterizes each of the above countries, the newspaper added. Still on the front of migrant workers, the General Security Director General Abaas Ibrahim met the Ethiopian Minister of State for Labor and Social Affairs in the presence of the director of FENASOL, Castro Abdallah, to discuss matters relevant to Ethiopian and African MWDWs in general. (Al Mustaqbal, AL Diyar, L’Orient Le Jour, July 14, 16, 17, 2018)
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