A Disproportionate Risk of Being Executed

Why Pakistani Migrants Are Vulnerable to Capital Punishment in Saudi Arabia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8401441
AutoresCarolyn Hoyle (0000-0002-6352-5790, University of Oxford, autor de correspondencia), Jocelyn Hutton (0000-0001-9359-9072, University of Oxford), Lucy Harry (0000-0001-7550-8915, University of Oxford)
Año2023
Volumen63
Número6
Páginas1423-1440
Fecha de publicación2023-11-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azac100
OpenAlexW4313729296
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas28

Many labour migrants in the Arab Gulf countries are from South Asia. Necessary to local economies, they enjoy few rights and protections from host states, particularly when accused of serious crimes. Our original empirical data suggests a disproportionate number of Pakistanis sentenced to death and executed in Saudi Arabia and we explore explanations within a wider discussion of the place and experiences of South Asian migrants in the Gulf. Our data suggest that drug laws and penal policies leave migrant workers particularly susceptible to capital punishment, with the administration of migrant employment recruitment processes exposing Pakistanis to coercion into drug trafficking such that some could be regarded not as criminally liable but as victims of human trafficking

Administration (probate law) · Capital (architecture) · Capital punishment · Coercion (linguistics) · Criminology · Development economics · Drug trafficking · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Migrant workers · Political science · Punishment (psychology) · Sociology · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology