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When Lucinda was only five years old, her mother left the Philippines to work as a domestic worker in Bahrain. “I don’t know exactly why my mom left, but I think it was because my dad drank a lot and was always losing his job, but at that time, I didn’t understand why she left my brother and I all alone,” said Lucinda, a 25-year-old woman who now works as a domestic worker in Kuwait City. Because Lucinda’s father had a habit of drinking and disappearing, sometimes for days on end, her mother decided it would be best to leave Lucinda and her brother, Pedro, in the care of their maternal aunt who lived in a neighboring village.
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Mahdavi, P. (2014). Immobilized Migrancy. In: Fernandez, B., de Regt, M. (eds) Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137482112_4
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