Migrant women and domestic work
Migratory experiences and resistance
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006503Keywords:
migrant women, domestic work, social reproduction, care organizationAbstract
The relation between female migration and domestic work, either paid or unpaid, is a long-standing one. As a result of social inequality between genders, the house, care, reproduction, and domestic tasks have been configured as a female patrimony, which has influenced the life experiences of migrant women as a whole. We started from some premises that allow us to systematize advances and point out possibilities of continuity in the field of international migration and domestic work. In the first place, we note that the tendency for women to be assigned tasks mainly in the area of social reproduction affects their permanence in the so-called productive sectors of activity, deepening occupational segregation and the wage gap. Second, we argue that domestic work, in the intersection of its paid and unpaid versions, is a structuring factor in the migratory projects...
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2022 Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Licença Creative Commons do tipo atribuição BY that allows the sharing of the work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted to to self-archive their published manuscripts by posting them in personal blogs, institutional repositories and scientific social media, as well as on their personal social media, as long as the full citation of the original publication is included.
