Illegal migrant Basotho women in South Africa: Exposure to vulnerability in domestic services

The illegal migration of Basotho women to South Africa in order to render domestic service is alarming because they are subjected to harsh treatment. This is a pastoral and theological concern for the church. As migrants, their struggle begins from the household circumstances that often force them to leave and seek job opportunities undocumented or without following prescribed migration procedures. They are then subjected to migration processes and procedures: for example, corruption and bribery by migration officers and illegal dealers (lirurubele). The working and living conditions in South Africa are often unconducive for illegal migrants. As economic and illegal migrants, they are often considered as lesser by prejudiced employers who treat them inhumanely. Accessing essential services also imposes a significant threat to their lives.Contribution: Through this study, the article will reveal the vulnerability faced by illegal migrant Basotho women as domestic workers in South Africa.

sDSPL - Towards a benchmark for general-purpose task evaluation in domestic service robots

Although the skills required to solve isolated robotics problems are reaching amazing performances recently, we propose the evaluation of such individual solutions in fully integrated robot systems tested in real daily situations like those presented at international robotics competitions. The simulation Domestic Standard Platform League (sDSPL), which utilizes the HSR simulator developed for the World Robot Summit, surges from the necessity to standardise and spread the research on Domestic Service Robots where a series of solutions can be tested to solve a general-purpose task in a standard domestic environment; this approach has been proven successful at several international competitions, namely, the RoboCup Japan Open, the Mexican Tournament of Robotics, and the RoboCup 2021.<div><br></div><div>**This work was accepted to The 39th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan.<br></div>

sDSPL - Towards a benchmark for general-purpose task evaluation in domestic service robots

Although the skills required to solve isolated robotics problems are reaching amazing performances recently, we propose the evaluation of such individual solutions in fully integrated robot systems tested in real daily situations like those presented at international robotics competitions. The simulation Domestic Standard Platform League (sDSPL), which utilizes the HSR simulator developed for the World Robot Summit, surges from the necessity to standardise and spread the research on Domestic Service Robots where a series of solutions can be tested to solve a general-purpose task in a standard domestic environment; this approach has been proven successful at several international competitions, namely, the RoboCup Japan Open, the Mexican Tournament of Robotics, and the RoboCup 2021.<div><br></div><div>**This work was accepted to The 39th Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan.<br></div>

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Relationships with domestic servants were among the longest-lasting and most complicated of Virginia Woolf’s life. For Woolf, domestic spaces are not private but shared, bringing women of different classes into intimate and sometimes uncomfortable proximity. Woolf’s life also spans a time of significant changes in the institution of domestic service in Britain, changes that affect Woolf’s own experience of domesticity and shape her writing. This chapter explores the intertwined contexts of domesticity and class in Woolf’s life and her writing, showing the contradictions and complexities in her thinking over time and across genres. As Alison Light has shown, Woolf’s attitude towards domestic workers often reflected ingrained class prejudices; feminist critics may be disturbed at how often servants mark the limits of Woolf’s imagination. Yet Woolf’s writing also demonstrates a career-long effort to think through the ‘servant problem’, an effort that shapes her aesthetic, her feminism, and her domestic life.

Customer Satisfaction of Vietnam Airline Domestic Services

The paper examines relation between Vietnam Airline Domestic service quality and consumer satisfaction by gathering opinions from 402 passengers employing Skytrax scale with some modification along with Cronbach’s alpha, EFA and multiple regression analysis. Results show that Vietnam Airline Domestic service quality can be measured by the following six determinants in order of decreasing importance: (1) boarding/deplaning/baggage; (2) check in; (3) in-flight services; (4) reservation; (5) aircraft; and (6) flight crew. All of them are directly proportional effect to customer satisfaction. The paper also offers some suggestions to improve the service quality thereby enhancing the customer satisfaction.