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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: domestic workers + workers invisible + domestic  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/13/2008)

400 demonstrators lend their voice to the invisibles
The Gazette (Montreal), Canada - May 5, 2008
She helped found the neighbourhood's Immigrant Workers Centre eight years ago and is its co-ordinator. In Quebec, "domestic workers are the only salaried ...

Human Rights Watch (press release)
Lebanon: Protect Domestic Workers From Abuse, Exploitation
Human Rights Watch (press release) - Apr 29, 2008
Human Rights Watch is launching a campaign to highlight the often invisible abuses that many women who are domestic workers suffer in Lebanon. ...
New award for anti-trafficking advocate
ABS CBN News, Philippines - May 6, 2008
"Sad and compelling my story may be, but it is nothing compared to the story of millions of young domestic workers in the Philippines and throughout the ...

BBC News
Two million workers 'exploited'
BBC News, UK - May 6, 2008
It found home-workers being paid ?1 an hour, fast food employees working 70 hours a week and domestic staff facing physical and sexual abuse. ...
Two million people 'trapped in low-paid, insecure jobs' 24dash
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The Indypendent
Domestic Workers Demand Fair Labor Laws
The Indypendent, NY - Apr 25, 2008
It is estimated that more than 200000 domestic workers are employed in New York state. Domestic workers say they are the ?invisible backbone? of New York ...
Domestic workers seek support for bill
Schenectady Gazette, NY - Apr 16, 2008
CAPITOL ? More than 200 domestic workers, including nannies, companions for the elderly and housekeepers, gathered at the Capitol on Tuesday to push for a ...
Canada: Justice for Migrant Workers: Why We Will March
Center for Research on Globalization, Canada - Apr 30, 2008
Many of these workers are coming as part of formal government programs, especially in areas of domestic workers and seasonal agricultural workers, ...
A bad patch of road
The Times, South Africa - May 10, 2008
The campsite was filled with beery caravaners who?d brought the entire contents of their homes on holiday ? including domestic workers to do the washing up. ...
India?s ?external? economic strength
Hindu Business Line, India - May 5, 2008
And, third, the probability that domestic inflation would force the Government to maintain curbs on exports of commodities such as steel, whose prices are ...
Economics and the Entrepreneur
The Claremont Institute, CA -
Real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, after growing 3.2% a year from 1962 to 1973, sank to a 1% annual growth rate from 1974 to 1982. ...
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[BOOK] In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian" modernity" Project -
CBN Chin - 1998 - books.google.com
r \ I 'oreign remale Domestic Workers IF JL ... In Service and Servitude Foreign Female
Domestic Workers and the Malaysian "Modernity" Project Christine BN Chin ...

Negotiating Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Singapore -
BSA Yeoh, S Huang - Urban Studies, 1998 - usj.sagepub.com
... Given the non-quanti? able and therefore invisible nature of domestic work,
live-in domestic workers? duties and working hours are often poorly de? ned ...

Visible bodies, invisible work: State practices toward migrant women domestic workers in Malaysia
CBN CHIN - Asian and Pacific migration journal, 2003 - cat.inist.fr
Visible bodies, invisible work: State practices toward migrant women domestic
workers in Malaysia. Christine BN CHIN Asian and Pacific ...

Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments -
R Rogowski - Princeton, NJ, 1989 - books.google.com
... pressures will not remain invisible but will ... and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic
Political Alignments ... That situation has positioned workers? and, in ...

[BOOK] Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour -
B Anderson - 2000 - books.google.com
... Page 2. Page 3. Doing the Dirty Work? makes visible the invisible lives
and work of migrant domestic workers throughout the world. ...

Negotiating Citizenship: The case of foreign domestic workers in Canada -
D Stasiulis, AB Bakan - Feminist Review, 1997 - JSTOR
... 3). Rendered largely invisible as a result of their performance of work in the private
sphere of the family-household, migrant domestic workers are generally ...

Servants and Slaves: Europe's Domestic Workers. -
B Anderson - Race and Class, 1997 - questia.com
... Paradoxically, while domestic labour continues to be invisible, `lifestyle' is not ...
Much of the labour of overseas domestic workers is spent on facilitating ...

Domestic Distinctions: constructing difference among paid domestic workers in Toronto -
B Stiell, K England - Gender, Place & Culture, 1997 - informaworld.com
... require that domestic workers/caregivers be `live-ins? at their employer?s homes
for their ? rst 2 years in Canada. ... live- out domestic workers ...

Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice: The Ecology of Visible and Invisible Work -
SL Star, A Strauss - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 1999 - Springer
... among domestic and other service workers, where the defining of legitimate work
rests heavily with the employer and where the employee is often invisible. ...

Spaces at the margins: migrant domestic workers and the development of civil society in Singapore -
BSA Yeoh, S Huang - Environment and Planning A, 1999 - envplan.com
... Given the nonquantifiable and largely invisible nature of domestic work, live-in
domestic workers' duties and working hours are often poorly defined, leaving ...

Source: Google Scholar

Young and invisible: African domestic workers in Yemen

Filmmaker Arda Nederveen and anthropologist Marina de Regt have made a short documentary about Ethiopian and Somalian women who work as domestic workers in Yemen. Many families in economically developed countries make use of migrant women as domestic workers and cleaners. But even in a relatively poor country such as Yemen, migrants and refugee women do paid domestic work. The majority of these come from the Horn of Africa. Why do these young women come to Yemen and what are their living and working conditions" Instead of portraying the women as victims, the film gives them a face and lets them show their resilience.

Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East, yet despite this attracts large numbers of refugees and migrants, mainly from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Dutch researcher Marina de Regt studied the backgrounds and motives of Yemeni employers and migrant domestic workers, the interactions between both parties, and the influence of outsourcing domestic household work on the families and society.

The research yielded various results. The domestic workers come from countries that are even poorer than Yemen and migrate to improve their own position and that of their families. Yemeni women do not want to do paid housework as it has a very low status. Yemeni employers emphasise that the treatment of domestic workers in Yemen is better than in other Arabic countries, but discrimination and racism are clearly prevalent.

De Regt's research is particularly relevant for the developmental problems in Yemen, the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. There are scarcely any national and international organisations that defend the rights of domestic workers. They often work in isolated circumstances, have poor conditions of employment, make long working hours and are sometimes the victims of abuse and exploitation and have no possibilities to defend their rights. One of the indirect outcomes of the research was the start of a UNIFEM-funded project to improve the working conditions of domestic workers. The documentary will be used to promote awareness about the living and working conditions of domestic workers in Yemen, but also further afield.

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