If we accept the Arab versus black slave binary, how do we reconcile the subjugation and enslavement of Yemeni Arabs? Yemenis, who are Arabs, occupy a subordinate status within the kingdom. In fact, since November 1, over 30,000 Yemeni workers migrated back to their homeland amid the rising violence toward foreign workers. Regardless of whether domestic workers are Yemenis, Ethiopian, Sudanese, Indian or Pakistani, they are black in Saudi Arabia - occupying a slave-like existence where their Saudi handlers bond them by debt, seize their legal documents, imprison them within the kingdom, and as enshrined by the new law, expel them immediately when they see fit. - Khaled Bey is the Critical Race Studies Teaching Fellow at the UCLA School of Law.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 18:02:30 +0000
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