In the United Arab Emirates, the kafala system binds migrant domestic workers to employment with one employer-sponsor. While various studies have identified the labour conditions elicited by the kafala system, research has paid less attention to the forces that underpin workers' interest in accommodating the constraints of the kafala. This article examines the effects of two punitive legal mechanisms that discipline domestic workers to remain within the kafala: cancellation and illegalisation. To be cancelled means to have one's contract revoked by one's employer-sponsor and consequently be forcibly deported; illegalisation is the consequence that migrants face if they choose to “abscond” from their sponsor-employer without permission. By examining the punitive legal system in which the kafala system is embedded, this article contributes to understanding the legal mechanisms that discipline migrant domestic workers into servitude in the UAE.

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Kafala 制度的治理与移民家政工人的惩罚性控制

在阿拉伯联合酋长国，kafala制度将移民家政工人与一个雇主担保人的就业联系起来。虽然各种研究已经确定了卡法拉制度引起的劳动条件，但研究较少关注支撑工人适应卡法拉限制的兴趣的力量。本文考察了两种惩罚性法律机制的效果，这些机制约束家政工人留在卡法拉: 取消和非法化。被取消是指雇主-担保人解除合同并因此被强制驱逐出境；非法化是移民在未经许可选择“潜逃”雇主的情况下面临的后果。通过检查嵌入卡法拉制度的惩罚性法律制度，本文有助于理解在阿联酋将移民家政工人惩戒为奴役的法律机制。