Human Mobility, Covid-19 And Policy Responses: The Rights And Claims-Making Of Migrant Domestic Workers
Human Mobility, Covid-19 And Policy Responses: The Rights And Claims-Making Of Migrant Domestic Workers

Author(s): Sarah Gammage
Subject(s): Labor relations, Health and medicine and law, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Human mobility; Covid-19; policy responses; migrant domestic workers;
Summary/Abstract: This article aims to explore policy responses to the early phase of the COVID-19 crisis, with a particular focus on disparate outcomes for international migrant domestic workers. We surface the central role that migrant domestic workers (MDWs) play in social provisioning and in mediating care responsibilities between the state and the family, particularly during lockdown and sheltering in place orders, and call attention to the essential but excluded nature of their work and their rights. We investigate how states’ responses to COVID-19 intersected with existing institutions of social provisioning, and with claims-making by MDWs, to shape the impact of this crisis upon their well-being.

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