Jihad Abaza is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Cairo. She reports on issues related to gender, labor and migration. Follow her work on www.abaza.photo or Instagram: g_abaza https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/contributor/jihad-abaza/rss en Informal Economy Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:00:00 +0000 Jihad Abaza https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/articles/2018/03/28/i-do-not-feel-free-the-women-trapped-in-domestic-work-in-egypt https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/articles/2018/03/28/i-do-not-feel-free-the-women-trapped-in-domestic-work-in-egypt They hear about the abuse and know they will be working illegally, but young women still travel to the Middle East to work as domestic workers. To help understand why, photojournalist Jihad Abaza documented the lives of three migrant women working for a family in Egypt.