RT Article
T1 Migratory dependency and the death penalty: Foreign nationals facing capital punishment in the Gulf
JF Punishment & society
VO 26
IS 1
SP 109
OP 127
A1 Harry, Lucy
A2 Hoyle, Carolyn 1964-
A2 Hutton, Jocelyn
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1870947134
AB This article focuses on the cases of 664 foreign nationals, the majority of whom are migrant workers, under sentence of death across the Gulf states (including Jordan and Lebanon) between 2016 and 2021. The features of these cases suggest that they are inextricably linked to migrant workers’ dependency under the kafala system, with examples of migrants duped into smuggling drugs across the border by their migrant broker, and once in country, accounts of violent altercations due to disputes about exit visas, and in the case of migrant domestic workers, self-defence against sexual violence. Engaging with the burgeoning literature on immigration, exploitation and criminalisation, as well as scholarship on capital punishment, this article will explore the multiple and unique layers of dependency fostered by the kafala system that place migrant workers at higher risk of the death penalty in these Gulf jurisdictions.
K1 Precarity
K1 migrant workers
K1 Violent Crime
K1 Foreign Nationals
K1 death penaty
DO 10.1177/14624745231186001