Organizing Domestic Workers and Workplace Rights: A Case Study from Hyderabad

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasanthi Nimushakavi
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Workplace Rights

An Ethnographic Assessment of Female Intra-Household Bargaining Power: A Case Study of Domestic Workers from India during a Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepanshu Mohan ◽  
Richa Sekhani ◽  
shivani agarwal ◽  
Kensiya Kennedy ◽  
Mansi Singh
Keyword(s):  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Household Bargaining

scholarly journals Women and their Journey to Self-Empowerment: A Case Study of Six Indonesian Female Migrant Domestic Workers

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Safira Prabawidya Pusparani ◽  
Ani Widyani Soetjipto
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Migration Decisions ◽  
Female Migrant ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

<p>In Indonesia, female migrant domestic workers’ representations tend to contain negative meanings. Although they are named as “heroes of development”, but their position is nothing more than a commodity for the country. Such treatment makes female migrant domestic workers becomes vulnerable to violence and exploitation by employers, agents, andgovernment staff. Nevertheless, there is an alternative narrative that is rarely highlighted in literature or media, namely the representation of female migrant domestic workers as powerful actors. This paper seeks to fill in that alternative narrative by highlighting the agencies did by these six female migrant domestic workers. The author believes that by using the standpoint feminism perspective to analyze the struggle of these six female migrant domestic workers in empowering themselves after the oppression, it can be seen that agency has been manifested by female migrant domestic workers during the migration process. This study reveals the efforts of female migrant domestic workers to manifest their empowerment through migration decisions in the middle of patriarchal structures, their ability to resist structures with activism, and become agents of development and change for their communities.</p>

Migrant domestic workers and the right to a private and family life

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-310
Author(s):  
Natalie Sedacca
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
The Public ◽  
Labour Legislation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

Domestic workers are mainly women, are disproportionately from ethnic minorities and/or international migrants, and are vulnerable to mistreatment, often receiving inadequate protection from labour legislation. This article addresses ways in which the conditions faced by migrant domestic workers can prevent their enjoyment of the right to private and family life. It argues that the focus on this right is illuminating as it allows for the incorporation of issues that are not usually within the remit of labour law into the discussion of working rights, such as access to family reunification, as well as providing for a different perspective on the question of limits on working time – a core labour right that is often denied to domestic workers. These issues are analysed by addressing a case study each from Latin America and Europe, namely Chile and the UK. The article considers impediments to realising the right to private and family life stemming both from the literal border – the operation of immigration controls and visa conditions – and from the figurative border which exists between domestic work and other types of work, reflected in the conflation of domestic workers with family members and stemming from the public/private sphere divide.

scholarly journals Regulating Foreign Labor in Emerging Economies: Between National Objectives and International Commitments

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 384
Author(s):  
Aries Harianto
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Labor Regulations ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
Foreign Labor

The dialectics of the regulation of foreign workers, is a problematic indication as a legal problem in Indonesian legislation. This article aims to describe the urgency of critical studies concerning the regulation of foreign workers by exploring existing legal problems with national commitments to ratify international agreements regarding free trade, with a case study in Indonesia. By using normative and juridical approach with a variety of approaches both the law approach, conceptual approach, case approach and comparative approach, the study found that the regulation there is an inconsistency clause regarding special competencies that must be owned by foreign workers, including the selection and use of terminology in Act No. 13 of 2003 concerning Manpower. Thus, this study offers a constitutional solution due to the regulation of the subordinate foreign workers on international trade commitments which in turn negate the constitutional goals of creating the welfare of domestic workers. The normative consequences that immediately bind Indonesia after integrating itself in the World Trade Organization (WTO) membership are services trade agreements that are contained in the regulations of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Based on the GATT/WTO rules, national legislation or labor regulations that are too protective are considered to violate WTO provisions because the WTO substantially requires the creation of policies without discrimination in all matters including equalizing the position of foreign workers and domestic workers. The final finding of this study offers to draft the concept of future regulation regarding the regulation of foreign workers who are loaded with elements of the objectives of constitutional-based law.   Received: 25 September 2020 / Accepted: 9 April 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021

scholarly journals “Hey Cabbie! Where are you From?” An Examination of Everyday Racism in Toronto’s Taxi Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Walters
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Immigrant Professionals ◽  
Workplace Rights ◽  
Taxi Industry ◽  
Immigrant Men

Using an anti-racist Marxist lens, issues of social exclusion and settlement are broadly highlighted taking into account racism in an industry that is most commonly noted for its ease of entry for immigrant professionals. This study attempts to build on previous studies of Toronto’s taxi industry (Hathiyani, 2006; Abraham, Sundar, & Whitmore, 2008) to focus specifically on racism. This research paper examines the extent to which ‘everyday racism’ is both a by-product of and a critical ingredient in perpetuating structural racism, using Toronto’s taxi industry as a case study. Drawing on interviews from 18 fulltime taxi drivers who identified as racialized groups and were born outside of Canada, it describes the familiar tensions associated with experiencing and responding to instances of racism in a precarious industry. In the absence of an association, anti-discrimination or workplace rights to protect the driver against racial abuse and harassment, drivers are forced to negotiate their responses on an individualized basis. Drivers linked everyday racism to both class position and structural racism within the industry. These findings strongly demonstrated inadequate policies to protect drivers from everyday racism in the workplace as a result of both structural racism and a neo-liberal climate. This warrants further inquiry as Toronto’s taxi industry is a major employer of racialized, immigrant men.

scholarly journals Exploring Intersection of Migration and Urban Space in Jakarta

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Kilim Park
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Conceptual Paper

<p>Stories of migration tend to mark monumental moments in people's lives. In Indonesia, the experiences of labour migrants, in particular, female overseas domestic workers (usually referred to as <em>TKW: Tenega Kerja Wanita</em>), continue to make the news and has made its way into the Indonesian popular culture as well. In this conceptual paper, I offer a brief observation on the discussion of labour migration in Indonesia, and propose new ways to explore migration and urban space. In particular, with a focus on intersectionality of the two with respect to migrant women returnee's experience, I propose an approach that considers the details in their everyday lives and reflections upon them intertwined with formal and informal aspects of urban citizenship. Finally, by using Jakarta as a case study of urban space where migrant returnees live in, and influence and change, I suggest a research direction that centralizes migrant women as a storyteller and keyplayer in our understanding of urban, social, and cultural change in Indonesia and broadly, Southeast Asia.<em> </em></p>

Female Domestic Workers: Income Determinants and Empowerment Correlates—A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-498
Author(s):  
Sanghita Bhattacharjee ◽  
Bhaskar Goswami
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Income Determinants
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