Indian Diplomat: The Devyani Khobragade Case

“…while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Thucydides

Devyani Khobragade, an Indian diplomat has been arrested and strip searched, late 2012, in New York for making false statements on her domestic worker’s visa application. In addition to her passport being withheld by her employer, the worker allegedly was underpaid and worked for very long hours. India pleaded diplomatic immunity and refused repetitively to waive immunities, the United States went on with the case.

Humiliating a senior diplomat received a strong Indian retaliation in return, both from the Indian government and from the Indian population. While the purpose of diplomacy was safeguarding peace , the Devyani Khobragade case showed it to be otherwise: the diplomat was at the core of the

G. Scope of the study

The Devyani Khobragade Case is at the core of this research which is the reason why Indo-American relations as well as taking the Indian and the American societies as samples are used throughout the paper.

In addition, domestic workers and the complications to their protection have been researched in a wider from a world view essentially through the lenses of the International Labor Organization and international and local Non-Governmental Organizations. Recommendations however are assembled through secondary studies made in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States as host countries for foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations.

H. Limitation of the study

The limitations found during the research process are

The nature of the actors discussed in this thesis: diplomats and protocol departments of foreign ministries