A Life After Kafala by Aline Deschamps

In the spring of 2020, photographer Aline Deschamps started a project which followed the daily life of Sierra Leonean migrant domestic workers repatriated from Lebanon. Through a mosaic of individual narratives, this series aims to capture the often overlooked complexities and long-term impacts and traumas that these women experience under the Kafala system, an oppressive structure that binds migrant domestic workers to their sponsors, who hold considerable authority and control over them.