Abstract:
Females heading to the Middle East as domestic workers are an important part of
labour migrants from Sri Lanka. Female domestic workers are highly vulnerable to
adverse working or living conditions in the Middle East region. As such, the
vulnerability of female domestic workers in the Middle East region is an important
concern of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment’s mediation as a
government shield is the best opportunity to reconciling the problems in the Middle
East. With this concern, main objectives of this study are; identify the vulnerable
women who are working as domestic workers in the Middle East region and,
understand the impact of SLBFE and their role as a government bureau. The vision
of SLBFE is Sri Lanka to be the best choice for competent human resources for
overseas market. For that purpose, the SLBFE providing facilities and welfare
services for those female workers and for their families are highly appreciated. The
research has used secondary data which are qualitative and have been drawn from
scholarly journals in order to ensure its reliability and for a balanced and profound
analysis. This paper makes an important contribution to the female domestic workers
vulnerabilities like physical harassment, mental harassment, living facilities, labour
protection, rights and violation of contract which are having in Middle East and the
role of SLBFE in solving those vulnerabilities. The SLBFE not only act as a mediator
in solving those vulnerabilities. The SLBFE provided welfare services to the female
domestic workers. Moreover, this study included the relation between the female
domestic workers vulnerabilities and the services provided by the SLBFE for those
female workers welfare benefits. The study finds conclusive evidence on the
vulnerability of female domestic workers in Middle East, and the facilities which are
made to discriminate those vulnerabilities as a government bureau.
