Nicholas McGeehan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5129693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas McGeehan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | McGeehan |
| SIGNATURE | MCGEEHAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Director of Mafiwasta, an organisation dedicated to migrant workers' rights in the United Arab Emirates |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Spinning Slavery
This article provides a detailed account of the use of foreign child jockeys in competitive camel racing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Although the extensive use of child jockeys ended in 2005, the initiation of a class action lawsuit for civil damages in a United States (US) federal district court in 2006 posed a serious risk to the reputation of the rulers of the UAE. The article describes the resulting public relations offensive, which re…
Misunderstood and neglected
This article posits the theory that a collective failure to recognise slavery's ability to manifest in forms other than chattel slavery has undermined attempts to abolish it by legal means, and has created confusion at the highest level in the legal discourse. The human rights law framework on slavery, in which forced labour and servitude are classified as practices related to, yet substantively distinct from, slavery, has been uncritically accep…
Enforcing Migrant Workers' Rights in the United Arab Emirates
The appalling treatment of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who constitute 80 per cent of the population and 95 per cent of the workforce, has largely escaped international scrutiny. The paper analyses the failure to protect migrant workers' rights in the UAE from a domestic and an international perspective. It outlines the extent of the abuses and demonstrates how the state's weak domestic laws have been further undermined by p…
Enforcing Migrant Workers' Rights in the United Arab Emirates
The appalling treatment of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who constitute 80 per cent of the population and 95 per cent of the workforce, has largely escaped international scrutiny. The paper analyses the failure to protect migrant workers' rights in the UAE from a domestic and an international perspective. It outlines the extent of the abuses and demonstrates how the state's weak domestic laws have been further undermined by p…
Misunderstood and neglected
This article posits the theory that a collective failure to recognise slavery's ability to manifest in forms other than chattel slavery has undermined attempts to abolish it by legal means, and has created confusion at the highest level in the legal discourse. The human rights law framework on slavery, in which forced labour and servitude are classified as practices related to, yet substantively distinct from, slavery, has been uncritically accep…
Enforcing Migrant Workers' Rights in the United Arab Emirates
The appalling treatment of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who constitute 80 per cent of the population and 95 per cent of the workforce, has largely escaped international scrutiny. The paper analyses the failure to protect migrant workers' rights in the UAE from a domestic and an international perspective. It outlines the extent of the abuses and demonstrates how the state's weak domestic laws have been further undermined by p…
Misunderstood and neglected
This article posits the theory that a collective failure to recognise slavery's ability to manifest in forms other than chattel slavery has undermined attempts to abolish it by legal means, and has created confusion at the highest level in the legal discourse. The human rights law framework on slavery, in which forced labour and servitude are classified as practices related to, yet substantively distinct from, slavery, has been uncritically accep…
Spinning Slavery
This article provides a detailed account of the use of foreign child jockeys in competitive camel racing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Although the extensive use of child jockeys ended in 2005, the initiation of a class action lawsuit for civil damages in a United States (US) federal district court in 2006 posed a serious risk to the reputation of the rulers of the UAE. The article describes the resulting public relations offensive, which re…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Class action (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Confusion (1 work) · Continuance (1 work)