Ray Jureidini is professor of migration ethics and human rights at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar. His human and labor rights based scholarship and activism centers on forced labour, human trafficking, and labour recruitment to the Middle East. He is a consultant and advisor on refugee issues, human trafficking, labour recruitment, labour supply chain evaluations and migrant labour reform advocacy.
Three opinion pieces: "A comment on Jureidini's 'Origins and initial outcomes of the... more Three opinion pieces: "A comment on Jureidini's 'Origins and initial outcomes of the Racial Hatred Act 1995'" by Ross MacGregor; "Reply to MacGregor's comment" by Ray Jureidini; "Step migration from New Zealand: how many and from where?" by Virginia Rapson Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The chapter provides a brief overview of labour migration of women from the Philippines to Lebano... more The chapter provides a brief overview of labour migration of women from the Philippines to Lebanon, beginning with nurses in the 1980s (during the civil war), followed by live-in domestic workers from the 1990s (post-civil war) and their evacuation during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006. The importance of labour emigration for the Philippines economy and the particularly entrepreneurial policy of maximizing labour remittances are shown as a countervailing pressure against periods of restrictions and bans on deploying Filipinas to Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries due to abuse and exploitation. The role of the government of the Philippines in regulating the deployment of Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is given more prominence in this analysis compared with other accounts of the topic. Of particular importance are the ways in which the stringent protective regulations in the recruitment of domestic workers, such as the minimum wage requirement, are circumvented. The chapter concludes with an account of the unresolved deaths of four domestic workers from the Philippines in 2004 that involved the Philippines embassy in Beirut and resulted in the recalling of their ambassador back to Manila.
This review of employment in Melbourne and Sydney is based on a customised data set enabling comp... more This review of employment in Melbourne and Sydney is based on a customised data set enabling comparison of industry outcomes at a detailed level over the decade 1986 to 1996. The data show that growth in the service industries, particularly services to property and business, has been the dominate source of employment growth in the two cities. However, Sydney has been more successful than Melbourne in capturing higher level occupations within these industries. On the other hand, Melbourne has been more successful than Sydney in retaining employment in manufacturing industries. The effects of state government cuts, particularly in education and government administration, are much more evident for Melbourne than for Sydney. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The brochure provides a synopsis of the norms and historical context for domestic workers in Leba... more The brochure provides a synopsis of the norms and historical context for domestic workers in Lebanon: “One notable effect of the transition to migrant domestic labor is eradication of child domestic labor in Lebanon. Prior to the civil war (1975) an Arab domestic worker could enter the Lebanese household as a child from as young as 8 years of age.” Asians from Sri Lanka and the Philippines currently provide supply for domestic servitude. One of the benefits is that without passports, "they can’t run away." It became shameful (‘aib) for a Lebanese woman to work as a maid, undermining her marriageability
India's Low-Skilled Migration to the Middle East, 2019
The chapter provides a brief overview of labour migration of women from the Philippines to Lebano... more The chapter provides a brief overview of labour migration of women from the Philippines to Lebanon, beginning with nurses in the 1980s (during the civil war), followed by live-in domestic workers from the 1990s (post-civil war) and their evacuation during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006. The importance of labour emigration for the Philippines economy and the particularly entrepreneurial policy of maximizing labour remittances are shown as a countervailing pressure against periods of restrictions and bans on deploying Filipinas to Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries due to abuse and exploitation. The role of the government of the Philippines in regulating the deployment of Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is given more prominence in this analysis compared with other accounts of the topic. Of particular importance are the ways in which the stringent protective regulations in the recruitment of domestic workers, such as the minimum wage requirement, are circumvented. The...
... necessarily always with success, at transcending spatio-temporal fixitie: These fixities, along... more ... necessarily always with success, at transcending spatio-temporal fixitie: These fixities, along with their socio-cultural correlates, sometimes comi to be ... advocate at the forefront of the humanitarian aid and transformed them into relief workers organized with other civic groups in ...
The Second ISA Forum of Sociology (August 1-4, …, 2012
In this historical period of the “Arab Spring', there is increasing pressure from NGOs and h... more In this historical period of the “Arab Spring', there is increasing pressure from NGOs and human rights activists not only for improving the democratic rights and conditions of citizens, but also those of non-citizens such as unskilled migrant workers, who in some Gulf ...
Disclaimer/Klachtenregeling Meent u dat de digitale beschikbaarstelling van bepaald materiaal inb... more Disclaimer/Klachtenregeling Meent u dat de digitale beschikbaarstelling van bepaald materiaal inbreuk maakt op enig recht dat u toekomt of uw (privacy)belangen schaadt, dan kunt u dit onderbouwd aan de Universiteitsbibliotheek laten weten. Bij een gegronde klacht zal de Universiteitsbibliotheek het materiaal ontoegankelijk maken en/of van de website verwijderen, dan wel samen met u bekijken hoe op een andere manier aan uw klacht tegemoet kan worden gekomen. Stuurt u hiervoor een e-mail naar: dare@uva.nl, of een brief naar: Bibliotheek van de Universiteit ...
This article addresses the question of the Muslim umma (the universal community of Muslims) which... more This article addresses the question of the Muslim umma (the universal community of Muslims) which arises within the context of the ongoing debates about the status of refugees and their rights around the world, especially in the Muslim world, where a significant majority of migrants and refugees originate and are hosted. We question the existence of the Muslim umma under contemporary circumstances and discuss the extent to which the modern nation-state has undermined the principles of Muslim unity and solidarity beyond national borders. We also examine how Islamic ethics and law (fiqh) identify the imperatives of providing comfort and protection for refugees (whether they are Muslim or non-Muslim) individuals, groups, and communities when required or requested. We see this in principle, but not always in practice. Are refugee policies applied by Muslim-majority countries today in accordance with the fundamental Islamic teachings and experiences of the original hijra? Or have such pr...
hugely influential role the commercial Egyptian film industry has played in the Middle East and b... more hugely influential role the commercial Egyptian film industry has played in the Middle East and beyond, but to frame it in response to US film is to risk both reinforcing the primacy of Hollywood and perpetuating an East/West binary that the author is rightly working hard to dismantle. In addition to the book’s comparison of US and Egyptian films, its second major objective, and the one that occupies its subsequent three chapters, is to “identify post9/11 filmic efforts in Hollywood and Egyptian cinemas, as well as the film making of Arab Americans themselves, that challenge the aforementioned restrictive representation strategies” (p. 6). Mahdi provides cogent analyses of Traitor (US, 2008) and Laylat al-Baby Doll (The Baby Doll Night; Egypt, 2008), films he understands as offering more complex if still limited representations of Arab Americans due to their engagement with multiple story lines, their diasporic mode of belonging, and heterogeneous identities that dissolve East/West ...
This report examines foreign labour recruitment into Qatar. The report is based on a study conduc... more This report examines foreign labour recruitment into Qatar. The report is based on a study conducted to ascertain the financial and procedural circumstances that give rise to basic human rights violations during labour recruitment. Based upon the study’s findings, the aim of this report is to offer recommendations for reform that will reduce or eliminate labour and human rights violations – and stimulate discussion on the issues raised.
Three opinion pieces: "A comment on Jureidini's 'Origins and initial outcomes of the... more Three opinion pieces: "A comment on Jureidini's 'Origins and initial outcomes of the Racial Hatred Act 1995'" by Ross MacGregor; "Reply to MacGregor's comment" by Ray Jureidini; "Step migration from New Zealand: how many and from where?" by Virginia Rapson Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The chapter provides a brief overview of labour migration of women from the Philippines to Lebano... more The chapter provides a brief overview of labour migration of women from the Philippines to Lebanon, beginning with nurses in the 1980s (during the civil war), followed by live-in domestic workers from the 1990s (post-civil war) and their evacuation during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006. The importance of labour emigration for the Philippines economy and the particularly entrepreneurial policy of maximizing labour remittances are shown as a countervailing pressure against periods of restrictions and bans on deploying Filipinas to Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries due to abuse and exploitation. The role of the government of the Philippines in regulating the deployment of Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is given more prominence in this analysis compared with other accounts of the topic. Of particular importance are the ways in which the stringent protective regulations in the recruitment of domestic workers, such as the minimum wage requirement, are circumvented. The chapter concludes with an account of the unresolved deaths of four domestic workers from the Philippines in 2004 that involved the Philippines embassy in Beirut and resulted in the recalling of their ambassador back to Manila.
This review of employment in Melbourne and Sydney is based on a customised data set enabling comp... more This review of employment in Melbourne and Sydney is based on a customised data set enabling comparison of industry outcomes at a detailed level over the decade 1986 to 1996. The data show that growth in the service industries, particularly services to property and business, has been the dominate source of employment growth in the two cities. However, Sydney has been more successful than Melbourne in capturing higher level occupations within these industries. On the other hand, Melbourne has been more successful than Sydney in retaining employment in manufacturing industries. The effects of state government cuts, particularly in education and government administration, are much more evident for Melbourne than for Sydney. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The brochure provides a synopsis of the norms and historical context for domestic workers in Leba... more The brochure provides a synopsis of the norms and historical context for domestic workers in Lebanon: “One notable effect of the transition to migrant domestic labor is eradication of child domestic labor in Lebanon. Prior to the civil war (1975) an Arab domestic worker could enter the Lebanese household as a child from as young as 8 years of age.” Asians from Sri Lanka and the Philippines currently provide supply for domestic servitude. One of the benefits is that without passports, "they can’t run away." It became shameful (‘aib) for a Lebanese woman to work as a maid, undermining her marriageability
India's Low-Skilled Migration to the Middle East, 2019
The chapter provides a brief overview of labour migration of women from the Philippines to Lebano... more The chapter provides a brief overview of labour migration of women from the Philippines to Lebanon, beginning with nurses in the 1980s (during the civil war), followed by live-in domestic workers from the 1990s (post-civil war) and their evacuation during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006. The importance of labour emigration for the Philippines economy and the particularly entrepreneurial policy of maximizing labour remittances are shown as a countervailing pressure against periods of restrictions and bans on deploying Filipinas to Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries due to abuse and exploitation. The role of the government of the Philippines in regulating the deployment of Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) is given more prominence in this analysis compared with other accounts of the topic. Of particular importance are the ways in which the stringent protective regulations in the recruitment of domestic workers, such as the minimum wage requirement, are circumvented. The...
... necessarily always with success, at transcending spatio-temporal fixitie: These fixities, along... more ... necessarily always with success, at transcending spatio-temporal fixitie: These fixities, along with their socio-cultural correlates, sometimes comi to be ... advocate at the forefront of the humanitarian aid and transformed them into relief workers organized with other civic groups in ...
The Second ISA Forum of Sociology (August 1-4, …, 2012
In this historical period of the “Arab Spring', there is increasing pressure from NGOs and h... more In this historical period of the “Arab Spring', there is increasing pressure from NGOs and human rights activists not only for improving the democratic rights and conditions of citizens, but also those of non-citizens such as unskilled migrant workers, who in some Gulf ...
Disclaimer/Klachtenregeling Meent u dat de digitale beschikbaarstelling van bepaald materiaal inb... more Disclaimer/Klachtenregeling Meent u dat de digitale beschikbaarstelling van bepaald materiaal inbreuk maakt op enig recht dat u toekomt of uw (privacy)belangen schaadt, dan kunt u dit onderbouwd aan de Universiteitsbibliotheek laten weten. Bij een gegronde klacht zal de Universiteitsbibliotheek het materiaal ontoegankelijk maken en/of van de website verwijderen, dan wel samen met u bekijken hoe op een andere manier aan uw klacht tegemoet kan worden gekomen. Stuurt u hiervoor een e-mail naar: dare@uva.nl, of een brief naar: Bibliotheek van de Universiteit ...
This article addresses the question of the Muslim umma (the universal community of Muslims) which... more This article addresses the question of the Muslim umma (the universal community of Muslims) which arises within the context of the ongoing debates about the status of refugees and their rights around the world, especially in the Muslim world, where a significant majority of migrants and refugees originate and are hosted. We question the existence of the Muslim umma under contemporary circumstances and discuss the extent to which the modern nation-state has undermined the principles of Muslim unity and solidarity beyond national borders. We also examine how Islamic ethics and law (fiqh) identify the imperatives of providing comfort and protection for refugees (whether they are Muslim or non-Muslim) individuals, groups, and communities when required or requested. We see this in principle, but not always in practice. Are refugee policies applied by Muslim-majority countries today in accordance with the fundamental Islamic teachings and experiences of the original hijra? Or have such pr...
hugely influential role the commercial Egyptian film industry has played in the Middle East and b... more hugely influential role the commercial Egyptian film industry has played in the Middle East and beyond, but to frame it in response to US film is to risk both reinforcing the primacy of Hollywood and perpetuating an East/West binary that the author is rightly working hard to dismantle. In addition to the book’s comparison of US and Egyptian films, its second major objective, and the one that occupies its subsequent three chapters, is to “identify post9/11 filmic efforts in Hollywood and Egyptian cinemas, as well as the film making of Arab Americans themselves, that challenge the aforementioned restrictive representation strategies” (p. 6). Mahdi provides cogent analyses of Traitor (US, 2008) and Laylat al-Baby Doll (The Baby Doll Night; Egypt, 2008), films he understands as offering more complex if still limited representations of Arab Americans due to their engagement with multiple story lines, their diasporic mode of belonging, and heterogeneous identities that dissolve East/West ...
This report examines foreign labour recruitment into Qatar. The report is based on a study conduc... more This report examines foreign labour recruitment into Qatar. The report is based on a study conducted to ascertain the financial and procedural circumstances that give rise to basic human rights violations during labour recruitment. Based upon the study’s findings, the aim of this report is to offer recommendations for reform that will reduce or eliminate labour and human rights violations – and stimulate discussion on the issues raised.
Jureidini, Ray & Hassan, Said (Eds.). (2020). Migration and Islamic Ethics. Leiden, The Netherlan... more Jureidini, Ray & Hassan, Said (Eds.). (2020). Migration and Islamic Ethics. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. This book addresses how Islamic ethical and legal traditions can contribute to current global debates on migration and displacement; how Islamic ethics of muʾakha, ḍiyāfa, ijāra, amān, jiwār, sutra, kafāla, among others, may provide common ethical grounds for a new paradigm of social and political virtues applicable to all humanity, not only Muslims. The present volume more broadly defines the Islamic tradition to cover not only theology but also to encompass ethics, customs and social norms, as well as modern political, humanitarian and rights discourses. The first section addresses theorizations and conceptualizations using contemporary Islamic examples, mainly in the treatment of asylum-seekers and refugees; the second, contains empirical analyses of contemporary case studies; the third provides historical accounts of Muslim migratory experiences. Available at: (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004417342
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