Kafala System and its impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days
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2016-01-30
2016-05-12
2087 - 2106
Keywords
- Kafala System
- slavery.
- Migrant Laborers
- Benyamin Daniel
- Goat Days
Abstract
In this paper, we try to examine the mistreatment, enslavement, forced labor, violence, and persecution meted out against Indian migrant laborers in Saudi Arabia. We also attempt to explain the Kafala, system of sponsorship, its mechanism, and how migrant laborers like the protagonist of Benyamin’s Goat Days, Najeeb Muhammad, become victims to such system. This study sheds light not only on Najeeb’s dehumanizing confinement, fear, mental agony, and physical torture but also on his resistance and rebellion against his own enslavement. It concludes that the story of Najeeb underscores the pressing need for the government of Saudi Arabia to reform the Kafala sponsorship system to prevent the exploitation of vulnerable migrant laborers and to ensure decent, safe working and living conditions for them. These reforms should be enforced by monitoring sponsors who would ensure that violators are persecuted. It is also an obligation shared by the migrant laborers’ sending countries which should create awareness among migrant laborers about the working conditions laws, benefits and rights expected in the Gulf States to avoid persecution and slavery like Najeeb. This study concludes that Najeeb’s narrative of slavery in Saudi Arabia harms its image and holy status as an enlightening minaret of Islam and its loving and peaceful religious teachings that do not permit slavery, oppression, exploitation and humiliation.
Shihada, I. (2016). Kafala System and its impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days. An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), 30(10), 2087–2106. https://doi.org/10.35552/0247-030-010-007
[1]I. Shihada, “Kafala System and its impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days,” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 2087–2106, Oct. 2016, doi: 10.35552/0247-030-010-007.
Shihada, Isam. “Kafala System and Its Impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days.” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), vol. 30, no. 10, Oct. 2016, pp. 2087–106. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.35552/0247-030-010-007.
1.Shihada I. Kafala System and its impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days. An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities) [Internet]. 2016 Oct;30(10):2087–106. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.35552/0247-030-010-007
Shihada, Isam. “Kafala System and Its Impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days.” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities) 30, no. 10 (October 2016): 2087–2106. https://doi.org/10.35552/0247-030-010-007.
نظام الكفالة وتأثيرها على العمال المهاجرين في رواية بنيامين دانيال أيام الماعز
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معلومات المقال
2016-01-30
2016-05-12
2087 - 2106
الكلمات الإفتتاحية
- Kafala System
- slavery.
- Migrant Laborers
- Benyamin Daniel
- Goat Days
الملخص
يحاول الباحث في هذه الورقة البحثية فحص سوء المعاملة، والاستعباد والسخرة، والعنف، والاضطهاد الذى يلاقيه العمال الهنود المهاجرون في المملكة العربية السعودية. وتحاول الدراسة شرح نظام الكفالة وأليته وكيف كان بطل رواية بنيامين دانييل، نجيب محمد، ضحية لهذا النظام. ’تسلط هذه الدراسة الضوء ليس فقط على الظروف اللاإنسانية التي عاشها نجيب مثل العزل، والخوف الألم النفسي، والتعذيب الجسدي، ولكن أيضا على مقاومته والتمرد ضد استعباده. وبينت هذه الدراسة قصة استعباد نجيب محمد في المملكة العربية السعودية تتناقض مع صورتها، ومكانتها المقدسة باعتبارها منارة تنويرية للإسلام وتعاليمه الدينية السمحة التي لا تسمح بالعبودية، والقهر، والاستغلال، والإذلال. وتخلص الدراسة إلى أن قصة نجيب تسلط الضوء على الحاجة الملحة لحكومة المملكة العربية السعودية لإصلاح نظام الكفالة لمنع استغلال العمال المهاجرين المستضعفين، وضمان ظروف عمل وعيش أمنة ولائقة لهم، وينبغي تنفيذ هذه الإصلاحات من خلال مراقبة الجهات الكافلة ومعاقبة المخالفين، ويجب أن يكون هناك التزام مشترك من قبل الدول المرسلة للعمال المهاجرين بتوعية العمال المهاجرين حول ظروف، وقوانين العمل، والمنافع والحقوق المتوقعة في دول الخليج لتجنب الاضطهاد والاستعباد مثل نجيب.
Shihada, I. (2016). Kafala System and its impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days. An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), 30(10), 2087–2106. https://doi.org/10.35552/0247-030-010-007
[1]I. Shihada, “Kafala System and its impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days,” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 2087–2106, Oct. 2016, doi: 10.35552/0247-030-010-007.
Shihada, Isam. “Kafala System and Its Impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days.” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), vol. 30, no. 10, Oct. 2016, pp. 2087–106. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.35552/0247-030-010-007.
1.Shihada I. Kafala System and its impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days. An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities) [Internet]. 2016 Oct;30(10):2087–106. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.35552/0247-030-010-007
Shihada, Isam. “Kafala System and Its Impact on Migrant Laborers in Benyamin Daniel’s Goat Days.” An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities) 30, no. 10 (October 2016): 2087–2106. https://doi.org/10.35552/0247-030-010-007.
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