• Naila Aroni

In Africa’s migration economy, women’s labor fuels households abroad while their own needs are sidelined at home. What does freedom look like when care itself becomes a form of exile?

• Naila Aroni

Kenya’s labor export model treats citizens as commodities, exploiting workers for remittances while neglecting domestic job creation.

• Mariam Diefallah

Domestic workers in the Gulf typically face a double bind: as a foreign worker, you are governed by kafala laws, while as a female, you are governed by the male guardianship system.

• Hanan Al-Alawi

Political encounters between the Arab Gulf and Africa span centuries. Mahmud Traouri's novel 'Maymuna' demonstrates the significant role of a woman’s journey from East Africa to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• Eliud Kibii

The dire, often fatal, conditions that African, and in this case specifically Kenyan, domestic workers are facing in the Middle East.

• Paul Fargues
• Aline Deschamps

Surviving the COVID-19 crisis as a jobless Sierra Leonean domestic worker in Lebanon. They are stuck together after losing their jobs or fleeing abusive employers.

• Ena Jansen

How black South African authors have written about domestic workers. There's a rich archive there.

• Greer Valley

The blinding privilege of South Africa’s ‘white’ middle and upper class which has found new means of subjugation: online community groups.

• Alice de Vries

South Africa has 52 million people. Around 1.1 million are domestic workers. 54,000 of those are under the age of fifteen.

• Valentina Montoya Robledo

The author on how she developed consciousness about the centrality of domestic work in her native Colombia and further afield

• Hlonipha Mokoena

All maids in South Africa are called Sheila. It’s the job description: to have a name that is directed at you but has nothing to do with you.