KUWAIT SCAPEGOATS, CRIMINALIZES ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS

MIGRANT RIGHTS Kuwait’s low-income migrants endure daily discrimination but local media and authorities tend to particularly criminalize Ethiopian domestic workers. The March 2014 murder of a Kuwaiti woman by an Ethiopian domestic worker most recently inflamed rhetoric against Ethiopian migrants and incited national panic against domestic workers; state officials and local media fueled racist hysteria in

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Kuwait: ‘No Ethiopian Maids’

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 23: Ministry of Interior has activated the decision to suspend the recruitment of male and female Ethiopian domestic workers from abroad, reports Al-Rai daily. The Assistant Undersecretary for Nationality and Passport Affairs Major General Faisal Al-Nawaf stated that Article

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