Why Ugandan women keep going to the Middle East Gender Just now
Labour migration from Uganda to the Middle East has surged since the early 2000s, with many young women travelling for employment as domestic workers.
Networks of authorised and unauthorised recruitment agencies, and rows of posters in Kampala, continue to lure women with promises of well-paid domestic work in the Middle East.
In a recent paper, we studied women’s decisions to migrate to the Middle East for domestic work.
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