Country:Netherlands

Director:Arda Nederveen

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

This film is about Ethiopian and Somali domestic workers in Yemen, and in particular about the ways in which they survive under difficult circumstances. While the employment of migrant domestic workers in the oil producing countries of the Arabian Peninsula is well known, few people know that also in a poor country like Yemen mainly migrant women are employed as domestics. Why is there a demand for paid domestic labour in Yemen? Who fills this demand? What are the living and working conditions of Ethiopian and Somali women in Yemen? And how do they survive?