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This chapter analyses the way in which migrant women employed in the domestic services sector in France make their work political. The French context encompasses a double reality. On the one hand, the state promotes a regularized market and the professionalization of paid care work performed in the...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-246882021-11-10T07:53:07Z Chapter 5 Migrant Women in Trade Unions Le Petitcorps, Colette Colette Le Petitcorps migrant women domestic sector activism trade unions bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration This chapter analyses the way in which migrant women employed in the domestic services sector in France make their work political. The French context encompasses a double reality. On the one hand, the state promotes a regularized market and the professionalization of paid care work performed in the home. On the other hand, the fact that a majority of domestic sector workers are migrant women leads to the reproduction of working conditions which display continuities with more ancient forms of domestic services relations. In this context, migrant women’s demands in trade unions for domestic workers often prove contradictory, ambivalent and different according to their different work experiences. I address the complexity of this form of activism through the analysis of in-depth interviews realized with two migrant women activists involved in different trade unions over different periods. The first one, of Mauritian origin, fought alongside undocumented domestic workers in the early nineties. The second, of Ivoirian origin, has been involved since 2011 in struggles against the exploitation of registered child-minders. Drawing on fieldwork data, I examine the process through which migrant domestic workers create new political subjectivities, and their potential for contesting the norms regulating domestic work, traditional conceptions of citizenship and dominant gender relations. 2019-10-17 13:35:47 2020-04-01T10:05:26Z 2020-04-01T10:05:26Z 2018 chapter 1005426 OCN: 1135844895 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24688 eng Studies in Migration and Diaspora application/pdf n/a 9780415788526_oachapter5.pdf Taylor & Francis Gender, Work and Migration Routledge 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 29e423f7-4c7d-48a1-8dd3-97ab77ba8390 Routledge 18 open access
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