Ending Racialized Treatment and Exploitative Workday Among Migrant Domestic Workers

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Ending Racialized Treatment and exploitative workday (overwork/less pay) among Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs).
Introduction
Today, women represent about half of the total internal migrant population across the globe. The migration of women in search of greener pastures is on the rise and over the years, governments have adopted vital measures to decrease the risks and vulnerabilities faced by migrants, especially women. For example, the US has already adopted the minimum wage bill, which is also applicable among domestic women workers (Chatterjee, Shantamay, et al.). Additionally, there have been extra efforts to guard migrant women against sexual and gender-based violence, human trafficking, and discrimination. While these efforts are documented and already enforceable, the risks and issues experienced by migrant domestic workers continue in most countries to this date. As such, advocacy remains the vital tool used to ensure that migrant domestic workers are protected from any form of human rights violation in their countries of destination (Jelin 129). Many migrant women consider domestic work as the ultimate opportunity to earn income socially accepted and, therefore, must receive the desirable protection.
Domestic work has exposed migrant women to two major problems namely racialized treatment and exploitative work-days. Migration from one country to another with the sole purpose of making a living and advancing their livelihoods and those of their families. As seen in figure 2, 53% of women migrants in the USA compared to 47% of men (Lutz, Helma, ed.). However, it is reported that a significant percentage of these women encounter racialized treatment and exploitative work-days. The reason behind these occurrences includes the lack of regulation of domestic work jobs, which has over time given employers complete control of their domestic workers. Domestic work is not fully documented as a formal job, and this gives it legal gaps to set up precise job descriptions, underpay them, and mistreat them. In most countries, domestic workers are exclusively under their employer, making the employer a direct, and final recipient of the work (Kaur, Amarjit 5). This means that the employer has complete control of all activities and roles assigned to domestic workers. Employers have power, and the majority of them have used this control to derive the greatest value from their migrant domestic workers at the expense of their human rights. Anjara, S. G., et al. (2017) notes that many migrant domestic workers endure a harsh working environment and have developed chronic stress, anxiety, and depression over time (Anjara, S. G., et al. 4). The recommendation for a particular cause of action is that women migrants should have the protection they desire to continue earning a living in harmony. Through advocacy, there is a need to develop policies that ensure adequate coverage of women migrant domestic workers in and outside the USA.
Policy Oriented solution and Self-advocacy in ending employer, making Racialized Treatment and exploitative workday among MDWs.
For many years, domestic work has been characterized solely by long working hours, low wages below statutory minimum wage, and inadequate acco...