International migration, public policies and domestic work: Latin American migrant women in the Spanish domestic work sector

Based on the Spanish case, in this article we explore the connection between migration policies, family policies, gender regimes and the insertion of Latin American migrant women into the domestic work sector. Over the first decade of the twenty-first century, Latin America became the main region of...

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Published in:Women's studies international forum 2014-09, Vol.46, p.13-23
Main Authors: Araujo, Sandra Gil, González-Fernández, Tania
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship
Domestic service
Family life
Female employees
Females
Feminism
Feminization
Foreign labor
Immigration Policy
Labor market
Labor Migration
Latin America
Migrants
Migration
Migration Patterns
Migration policy
Public policy
Sex
Social policy
Spain
Twenty First Century
Welfare state
Women's studies
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Summary:Based on the Spanish case, in this article we explore the connection between migration policies, family policies, gender regimes and the insertion of Latin American migrant women into the domestic work sector. Over the first decade of the twenty-first century, Latin America became the main region of origin of migrants who had settled in Spain, being women the first link in these migration chains. The main factors that have affected the configuration of this feminization are linked to migration policies and patterns of migration, the features of the welfare state, the characteristics of the labor market and the way in which gender organizes and stratifies migration and domestic work. The achievement of national middle class women's rights to conciliate their professional and family life through outsourcing domestic work to "non-national" women also brings with it a deep inequality in terms of citizenship.
ISSN:0277-5395
1879-243X
1879-243X
DOI:10.1016/j.wsif.2014.01.007