2003
DOI: 10.25071/1920-7336.21299
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RESPECT for All: The Political Self-Organization of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the European Union

Abstract: This contribution focuses on the empowering political practices of RESPECT, the European network for migrant domestic workers. The paper contrasts RESPECT’s empowering approach with that of other actors in which migrant domestic workers are presented as victims and in which the struggle is situated within the discourse of combatting illegal immigration and trafficking in women. The central hypothesis of this paper is that this distinction between female migrant domestic workers constructed as victims of traffi… Show more

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“…The labour rights campaigns of domestic worker organisations at the national and regional levels have been the object of several scholarly studies, covering, for example, the USA (Boris and Nadasen, 2008), Italy (Andall, 2000; Sarti, 2010), Latin America (Blofield, 2012), Hong Kong (Constable, 2009) and South Africa (Ally, 2011; Fish, 2006). In Europe, Helen Schwenken (2003) has studied the network called Respect, which in the early 2000s mobilised domestic workers, especially undocumented migrants, from several EU countries. Yet most of the scholarship on domestic workers’ organising has focused on the local level; there are few studies of the International Network of Domestic Workers (IDWN) or accounts of the movement as a ‘global’ phenomenon.…”
Section: Domestic Workers Mobilising For Their Rights At the Global Lmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The labour rights campaigns of domestic worker organisations at the national and regional levels have been the object of several scholarly studies, covering, for example, the USA (Boris and Nadasen, 2008), Italy (Andall, 2000; Sarti, 2010), Latin America (Blofield, 2012), Hong Kong (Constable, 2009) and South Africa (Ally, 2011; Fish, 2006). In Europe, Helen Schwenken (2003) has studied the network called Respect, which in the early 2000s mobilised domestic workers, especially undocumented migrants, from several EU countries. Yet most of the scholarship on domestic workers’ organising has focused on the local level; there are few studies of the International Network of Domestic Workers (IDWN) or accounts of the movement as a ‘global’ phenomenon.…”
Section: Domestic Workers Mobilising For Their Rights At the Global Lmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…17 Faier, 2009. 18 E.g., Anderson, 2001;Schwenken, 2003;Sim, 2009. France (notably irregular migrants) who have started to join labour unions in the country. 19 Based on these migrants' responses to the state, it is evident that they do have different ways of expressing their agency.…”
Section: 2mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In other words, instead of identifying domestic workers predominantly as “victims” who need to be protected and rescued from harm, or as “heros” who “save” the economy of their country through their remittance, a discourse shift needs to occur. In doing so, the focus is not merely on the poor plights suffered by these women but on what capabilities needs these women must have in order for them to earn their livelihood as valuable workers who are doing “proper work” (Schwenken, 2005).…”
Section: Capability Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%