"A stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system. In the United Arab Emirates, there is an employment sponsorship system known as the kafala. Migrant domestic workers within it must solely work for...

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...

Trabajadoras en la sombra: dimensiones del servicio doméstico latinoamericano / Séverine Durin, María Eugenia de la O y Santiago Bastos -- Mercado laboral, regulación y ciudadanos: presentación / María Eugenia de la O -- Las nuevas tendencias del empleo doméstico en España / Raquel...

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...