The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries host at least 2.4 million foreign domestic workers, who are legally excluded from national labor laws and regulations, thus placing them in precarious social, legal, and economic conditions in the GCC labor markets. Despite the recent growth of...

The massive of immigrant women in recent decades, has resulted in social and labour insertion of these effectively enforced through the domestic sector, but in which conditions? The Purpose of this study is to show the functioning of the domestic work market within Murcia City, through...

Organisations and scholars have recently drawn attention to what they call a modern form of slavery, ''domestic slavery''. Domestic workers in Europe and elsewhere live and work in appalling conditions and are vulnerable to abuse. This article describes the problem, presents the relevant legal...

This Article uses an ethnographic case study to challenge the conventional wisdom in international labor law that formality – including formal contracts and special migration programs – always produces better jobs for transnational migrant workers than informality. Interviews with informal...

Studies on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have demonstrated that poor women have been the worst sufferers in terms of pay cuts and job losses. Women are the hardest hit also at the household level. They have to bear the brunt of constrained household budgets and have also encountered...

This paper aims to understand how policy change for women's rights occurs, and what factors and conditions facilitate non-state actors' influence over policy processes. It argues that policy change is a complex and iterative process, and explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against...

Among all categories of the informal sector, the protection of domestic workers forms one of the biggest challenges to labor laws. The inherent subjugation involved in the work, along with a typical nature of the work of domestic workers, makes them more vulnerable than other workers in the...