Reflections on Globalized Care Chains and Migrant Women Workers

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1179-1189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Romero
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
State Regulations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Entry Requirements ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

An analysis of the international division of reproductive labor is incomplete without acknowledging the proliferation of state regulations in migrant-receiving countries, which result in restricting workers’ ability to maintain their own families and to exercise their full range of labor rights. An overview of trends in nations fueling the need for domestic workers and caregivers includes the social conditions for migrants increasingly fill this niche. The transnational circuits of care migration are constructed by the commercial and legal processes used to recruit and transport domestic workers. These are highlighted by analyzing the policies in the USA and United Arab Emirates to demonstrate the restrictions countries place on migrants seeking employment and the limited labor protections offered migrant domestic workers. Two otherwise different countries have adopted similar entry requirements tying migrant domestic workers to employer sponsored jobs in their homes. However, the USA offers fewer visa options to domestic workers and recruitment systems differ. Vulnerabilities faced by migrant domestics receiving visas are linked to these immigration policies.

Informed But Insecure: Employment Conditions and Social Protection among Paid Domestic Workers in Guayaquil

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-174
Author(s):  
Erynn Masi de Casanova ◽  
Leila Rodriguez ◽  
Rocío Bueno Roldán
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
America Latina ◽  
High Level ◽  
Private Homes

Salaried domestic labor in private homes in Latin America is informal, precarious, and exploitative, but for thousands of women who have no other options it is their occupation and the sustenance of their families. The results of a study based on 400 surveys of paid domestic workers in Guayaquil, Ecuador, about social protection and labor rights show that workers possess a high level of knowledge about their labor rights but the majority do not belong to the social security system and many do not enjoy any of the benefits guaranteed them by law. Understanding the situation and experiences of these workers is a precondition for creating strategies to recognize the importance of their work and to guarantee their labor rights. En América Latina, el trabajo remunerado en casas privadas es informal, precario, y explotador; para miles de mujeres que no tienen otras opciones, es su ocupación y el sustento de su familia. Los resultados de un estudio basado en 400 encuestas de la protección social y derechos laborales de las mujeres trabajadoras remuneradas del hogar de Guayaquil, Ecuador, demuestran un alto nivel de conocimiento de los derechos laborales entre las trabajadoras. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las participantes no estaba afiliada al sistema de seguro social, y muchas no gozaban de ninguno de los beneficios garantizados por la ley. Entender la situación y las experiencias de las trabajadoras del hogar es necesario para crear estrategias que reconozcan la importancia de la reproducción social y defiendan los derechos laborales.

scholarly journals Political and Social Geography of Marginal Insiders: Migrant Domestic Workers in Taiwan

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 99-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-Chia Lan
Keyword(s):  
Social Geography ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Contract Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Female Migrant ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

This paper looks at the incorporation and marginalization of female migrant domestic workers in Taiwan. The first part sketches the political geography of foreign workers by examining how the government regulates, marginalizes, and disciplines foreign contract workers. The second part portrays the social geography of migrant domestic workers in Taiwan by discussing how they establish multiple forms of communities and networks. I also compare Filipina and Indonesian migrant domestic workers in terms of how they are discursively constructed by employment agencies and how they gather in different spatial patterns on Sundays.

scholarly journals Work Condition, Gender Relation And Violence Against Women Migrant Domestic Workers

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Keppi Sukesi
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Destination Country ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Village ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

The research aims to analyze the social conditions of working women migrant domestic workers, gender relations in their home and workplace, and to describe the violence experienced by women migrant domestic workers. The research method used is case study in two villages, namely village of Majangtengah Malang Regency and village of Junjung Tulungagung Regency as sender of migrant worker. The research informants are migrant workers who have returned to their home villages and migrant families who are working overseas. This study uses a qualitative approach through in-depth study of 32 migrant workers. Data analysis technique is descriptive qualitative. Research results show that women migrant workers are encouraged to work away from the village and families by socioeconomic factors. They have different working conditions in the destination country. The employer factors are crucial to urge the success of the migrant workers. They contribute economically to households and surrounding communities, but this work is very at risk of violence. Violence can occur from departure to destination country. Therefore, protection of women migrant workers is very important.

Thinking Policy Through Migrant Domestic Workers’ Itineraries

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 859-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Silvey ◽  
Rhacel Parreñas
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

This article summarizes key findings from our research on Indonesian and Filipino migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates to reflect on their implications for policy. To illustrate the patterns we have observed, the article traces the migration biographies of two women, one from West Java and one from the Philippines, and it then asks what their experiences reveal about the policy landscape. We find, in concert with a large body of literature on social policy for migrants, that in many cases the policies that currently exist—and the gaps in these policies—are themselves central to producing the problems that migrant domestic workers face. Thus, we focus not on what states or international organizations can do in terms of policy improvements per se, but more generally on how the policy context is part and parcel of the broader social world that affects migrant workers’ welfare over the course of their migration biographies.

Serial Labor Migration: Precarity and Itinerancy among Filipino and Indonesian Domestic Workers

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1230-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas ◽  
Rachel Silvey ◽  
Maria Cecilia Hwang ◽  
Carolyn Areum Choi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Temporary Labor ◽  
Skilled Migrant ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

This article examines the mobility patterns of migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. It identifies and explains the emergence of serial labor migration, which we define as the multi-country, itinerant labor migration patterns of temporary low-skilled migrant workers. It argues that policy contexts shaping temporary labor migration, as they impose precarious and prohibitive conditions of settlement in both countries of origin and destination, produce the itinerancy of low-skilled migrant workers. We offer a holistic analysis of the migration process of temporary labor migrants, shifting away from a singular focus on the process of emigration, integration, or return and toward an examination of each stage as a co-constitutive step in the migration cycle. Our analytic approach enables us to illustrate the state of precarity and itinerancy that follows low-wage migrant workers across the various stages of the migration cycle and produces serial migration patterns among migrant domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia.

Forced returnee Bangladeshi female migrant domestic workers and their social reintegration experiences

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212110485
Author(s):  
Muhammad Tareq Chy ◽  
Md. Kamal Uddin ◽  
Helal Uddin Ahmmed
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Social Reintegration ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intimate Partnerships ◽  
Female Migrant ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Bangladeshi female migrant domestic workers are often forcefully repatriated from the Middle East before concluding their working tenure due to the various difficulties and challenges they face while working there. However, they face many new challenges in reintegrating with family and society after returning home. This article explores the experiences and challenges faced by forced returnee Bangladeshi female migrant domestic workers during social reintegration. It also examines the experiences of those returned migrant women who were not returned forcibly to provide a better idea of the reintegration. The questions of how and why forced returnee Bangladeshi female migrant domestic workers face challenges and problems in their social reintegration are addressed in this study. This article uses the qualitative techniques of data collection and the analysis is based on an in-depth interview of 28 respondents among different categories of participants. This article finds that the social reintegration experiences of forced returnee female migrant domestic workers are often stressful and difficult due to the issues of changed social perceptions towards them, psychological changes in the returnees themselves, challenges in intimate partnerships, and economic factors in the case of relationship rebuilding with friends, family and society. Finally, the article outlines some policy implications regarding the female migration of Bangladesh.

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