This episode highlights the story of Faustina Tay, a young Ghanaian woman who tragically ended her life in 2020 due to the abuse and violence she faced at the hands of her employers while working under a government-sponsored program in Lebanon.
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Love and light,
Khaddija and Lola
Sources
- ‘The desperate final days of a domestic worker in Lebanon’ - https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/4/7/the-desperate-final-days-of-a-domestic-worker-in-lebanon
- “ Faustina Tay Mentions the Sexual abuse by Hussein and Ali Dia” https://youtu.be/x65PnurOY8Q?si=gmFsk391YNWAF9gx
- This is Lebanon, the organization Faustina Tay contacted numerous times to help her before her tragic passing. https://thisislebanon.site/
- Mannon, S. A., Petrzelka, P., Glass, C. M., & Radel, C. (2011). Keeping Them in Their Place: Migrant Women Workers in Spain's Strawberry Industry. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food , 83-101.
- Moreno Fontes Chammartin, G. (2004). The feminization of international migration . International Migration Programme, ILO, 39-47.
- International Labour Organization . (2019). Migrant domestic workers. Retrieved from ILO: https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/labour-migration/policy-areas/migrant-domestic-workers/lang--en/index.htm
- DW ‘Behind the Produce’ Documentary: https://youtu.be/Z5sA0ioZcNE?si=d821bqXoPAE6L-u6
