dc.contributor.author |
Howland, Daryn Mary |
dc.date.accessioned |
2021-09-23T08:56:40Z |
dc.date.available |
2021-09-23T08:56:40Z |
dc.date.issued |
2019 |
dc.date.submitted |
2019 |
dc.identifier.other |
b25805630 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/23087 |
dc.description |
Thesis. M.A. American University of Beirut. Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, 2019. T:7115. |
dc.description |
Advisor : Dr. Sylvain Perdigon; Assistant Professor; Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies ; Members of Committee : Dr. Livia Wick; Associate Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies ; Dr. Greg Burris; Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-214) |
dc.description.abstract |
This project builds on the assumption that everyday racism targeting migrant workers in Lebanon constitutes a form of structural violence resulting from the Kafala system and more broadly, the consolidation of global capitalism and subsequent transformations in the global labor market. This operationalization of structural violence thus looks at racism as a microcosm of larger global and economic processes while remaining attentive to the various ways it materializes in the course of everyday life. This research is guided by questions about the inter-dynamics of law and society, with a specific focus on the process by which legal structures enable a process of racialization that manifests in everyday racist patterns and practices. Employing an ethnographic investigation of the legal system governing migrant work, I explore how racism in Lebanon is linked to structures of power that materialize through the dynamics of the Kafala System and Lebanese labor law, and the larger global processes of accumulation and dispossession under global capitalism. In doing so, I aim to provide a better understanding of the processes through which migrant workers are racialized, inferiorized and exploited through embodied, socio-economic conceptualizations of race. |
dc.format.extent |
1 online resource (xii, 214 leaves) : color illustrations |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.subject.classification |
T:007115 |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Migrant labor -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Racism -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Human rights -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Labor laws and legislation -- Lebanon -- Beirut. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Globalization. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Capitalism. |
dc.title |
Racist capital : the racialization of migrant labor under the Kafala system in Beirut |
dc.title.alternative |
The racialization of migrant labor under the Kafala system in Beirut |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies |
dc.contributor.faculty |
Faculty of Arts and Sciences. |
dc.contributor.institution |
American University of Beirut. |