AbstractsEconomics

The project concerns this widespread use of migrant domestic workers in developed countries - particularly Europe, and why we keep on using them. The domestic work-sector is one of the worlds biggest employments yet it is highly feminised and the data about the sector is very slim. The sector is also highly dominated by both documented and undocumented migrants. But what makes migrant domestic workers needed in developed economies? What role do they perform in our economy? And why do we need more now than we did decades ago? This project explores these questions from a global political economy (GPE) perspective.