Tackling Forced Labor in Qatar: Is Exploitation Nearing an End?

This article explores the case of N’Guyen Van Binh, a South Vietnamese political prisoner exiled for his alleged role in “Poukhombo’s Rebellion” in Cambodia in 1866. Although Van Binh’s original sentence of exile was reduced to one year in prison he was nonetheless deported and disappeared into the maw of the colonial systems of indentured servitude and forced labor; he likely did not survive the experience. He was thus the victim of injustice and his case reveals the at best haphazard workings of the French colonial bureaucracy during the period of transition from the Second Empire to the Third Republic. While the documentary record is entirely from the perspective of the colonizers, reading between the lines we can also learn something about Van Binh himself including his fierce will to resist his colonial oppressors.

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Migrations and Macro-Regions in Times of Crises

The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190856908.013.10 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 20-36

Author(s):

Dirk Hoerder

Keyword(s):

Roman Empire ◽

Political Theory ◽

North China ◽

Temporal Analysis ◽

Forced Labor ◽

Standard View ◽

Spatial And Temporal Analysis ◽

Potential Impact ◽

Migration Systems ◽

Actual Relationship

This essay analyzes the actual relationship between natural and manmade crises in longue-durée perspective and questions labels attached by master narrators. It challenges the standard view by differentiating sociologically between groups benefiting or suffering from migration. At the beginning, scales of spatial and temporal analysis are discussed as well as types of migration in relation to their potential impact. Next the elimination of mobility and crises in historiography and political theory regarding Greek and Roman societies are discussed. The following section approaches three distinct mass migrations in terms of push factors perceived, often justly so, as crises: the misnamed “peoples” migrations, migration after the “fall” of the Roman Empire, and settlement of the Yangtze Valley. Then forced labor mass migrations (slaveries) and the migrations in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and North China migration systems, self-decided under extreme economic and societal constraints, are analyzed. In conclusion present-day discourses are placed in context.

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Forced Labor in the United States.Walter Wilson

American Journal of Sociology ◽

10.1086/216879 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 40 (4) ◽

pp. 558-558

Author(s):

David J. Saposs

Keyword(s):

Forced Labor

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Thoughts on Finding and Assisting Individuals in Forced Labor in the USA

Sexualities ◽

10.1177/1363460709359116 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 139-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Denise Brennan

Keyword(s):

Forced Labor ◽

The Usa

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Of Fields and Forced Labor

Horizons in Biblical Theology ◽

10.1163/18712207-12341327 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 145-152

Author(s):

Carolyn J. Sharp

Keyword(s):

Near East ◽

Ancient Near East ◽

Forced Labor ◽

Economic Relations ◽

Biblical Narratives ◽

The Poor ◽

Ancient Israel ◽

Economic Practices ◽

Economic Control ◽

History Of

Biblical narratives about ostensibly “local” barter (Abraham’s purchase of the cave at Machpelah), protection of battle spoils (Achan’s theft and subsequent execution), and commodification of labor and bodies (Ruth gleaning for hours and offering herself to Boaz) reveal much about ideologies of economic control operative in ancient Israel. The materialist analysis of Roland Boer provides a richly detailed study of Israelite agrarian and tributary practices, offering a salutary corrective to naïve views of Israelite economic relations. Highlighting labor as the most ruthlessly exploited resource in the ancient Near East, Boer examines the class-specific benefits and sustained violence of economic formations from kinship-household relations to militarized extraction. Boer’s erudite study will compel readers to look afresh at the subjugation of the poor and plundering of the powerless as constitutive features of diverse economic practices throughout the history of ancient Israel.

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