International migration of women and paid domestic work: oppression and citizenship in the era of globalization

Abstract

This work has as its objective the elucidation of some of the conditionings evolved in international migration of women and the performance of paid domestic work at the country of destination. Migrant women suffer innumerous oppressions along their trajectory, and our goal was not to list them, but to identify some and emphasize there is a structure of inequality in which this exploitation happens, legitimized too by the narrow personal scope given to the concept of citizenship, especially in international treaties.

Keywords:  International migration of women; Domestic work; Oppression; Citizenship