Migrant domestic workers and the gender politics of mobility

This chapter analyzes the globalized economy of domestic work through the lens of gender and migration studies. This chapter will first discuss how the migration of domestic workers has long been invisible in social science literature. It will then point out how globalized domestic work has become a central issue driven by feminist studies and migration studies. By doing so, this chapter will underline how the study of domestic workers’ migrations has given birth to some key analytical themes in the social sciences, such as “migrations in the global South” or the “gendered, racial, and international division of labor.” Following this development, this chapter will focus on mobility from the perspective of migrant domestic workers by examining the current debates around the making of transnational families, the articulation of social and spatial mobility (such as “contradictory class mobility”), the “cosmopolitanism from below,” and the constrained mobility within the home and in urban spaces.

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Debonneville, J., & Yeoh, B. (2024). Migrant domestic workers and the gender politics of mobility. In V. Preston, S. McLafferty, M. Maciejewska, & B. Yeoh (Eds), Handbook of Gender and Mobilities (pp. 243-256). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035300860.00027