Blocking Exit, Stopping Voice: How Exclusion From Labor Law Protection Puts Domestic Workers at Risk in Saudi Arabia and Around the World

Globally, fifty percent of migrants are female. Migrant domestic workers are usually female and migrate on short-term contracts. This article focuses on the intersection of international human rights law and migrant domestic workers. It uses Saudi Arabia as a case study to illustrate the issues. Using Albert O. Hirschman's exit, voice, the article argues that the exclusion of migrant domestic workers from labour laws violates international human rights law. Finally, the author offers suggestions to provide migrant domestic workers with legal protection.

Katherine Scully, Blocking Exit, Stopping Voice: How Exclusion From Labor Law Protection Puts Domestic Workers at Risk in Saudi Arabia and Around the World (2010) 41:3 Colum HRL Rev 825.