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Jul 2019
12m 42s

Foreign Workers and Housewives of Jordan

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In this episode we hear from female foreign workers about their experiences of love, marriage and childbirth in Jordan. One of them tells us of being forced to leave her child in her home country and another talks to us of her struggle to pay rent and live with her children in Amman.

This episode is supported by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. All opinions are the author's own.



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