Add to ORKGThe increasing inclusion of women into the labour market, the aging of the population, and the austerity measures affecting the public care system in the European Union have propelled the demand for domestic and care workers in the last decades. A large number of private households are choosing to employ women to provide these services. Often, those employed are migrant women who, in some cases, reside in Europe without legal resident status. As undocumented migrants, these women lack legal protection as workers. This paper will focus on this lack of protection by studying the case of Latin American undocumented female migrants employed as domestic workers in private households in Western Europe. The focus of the paper will be the affective...
Scholarship on migrant care work argued that we need to broaden our understanding of the internation...
With the growth of migration in recent decades, immigrant women from the countries of the South have...
Many Spanish women manage to cope with the demands of both job and family by hiring immigrant women ...
The increasing inclusion of women into the labour market, the aging of the population, and the auste...
Migrant women have come to play an important role as care and domestic workers in private households...
In Spain, most jobs available for Latin American immigrant women are in intimate labour (caregiving ...
The feminization of migrations, especially in the Mediterranean countries of Europe, is associated w...
Domestic service and work done at home are two economic fields highly feminised and largely occupied...
An extract of the book, the introduction chapter, is available in PDF with permission from the publi...
In this paper we analyze the intersections between migration, gender and work. We focus on economic ...
Bolivian women migrate within Bolivia as well as to foreign countries, mostly to Argentina and Spain...
Migrant women workers employed in what are seen as ‘low-skilled’ labour sectors are disadvantaged by...
Based on ethnographic research conducted in Brussels, this article analyses gender-based constructio...
Las trabajadoras domésticas extranjeras constituyen uno de los grupos de trabajadores más vulnerable...
This article analyses migration of Andean women in the European context based on two analytic axis: ...
Scholarship on migrant care work argued that we need to broaden our understanding of the internation...
With the growth of migration in recent decades, immigrant women from the countries of the South have...
Many Spanish women manage to cope with the demands of both job and family by hiring immigrant women ...
The increasing inclusion of women into the labour market, the aging of the population, and the auste...
Migrant women have come to play an important role as care and domestic workers in private households...
In Spain, most jobs available for Latin American immigrant women are in intimate labour (caregiving ...
The feminization of migrations, especially in the Mediterranean countries of Europe, is associated w...
Domestic service and work done at home are two economic fields highly feminised and largely occupied...
An extract of the book, the introduction chapter, is available in PDF with permission from the publi...
In this paper we analyze the intersections between migration, gender and work. We focus on economic ...
Bolivian women migrate within Bolivia as well as to foreign countries, mostly to Argentina and Spain...
Migrant women workers employed in what are seen as ‘low-skilled’ labour sectors are disadvantaged by...
Based on ethnographic research conducted in Brussels, this article analyses gender-based constructio...
Las trabajadoras domésticas extranjeras constituyen uno de los grupos de trabajadores más vulnerable...
This article analyses migration of Andean women in the European context based on two analytic axis: ...
Scholarship on migrant care work argued that we need to broaden our understanding of the internation...
With the growth of migration in recent decades, immigrant women from the countries of the South have...
Many Spanish women manage to cope with the demands of both job and family by hiring immigrant women ...