This open access short reader offers a systematic overview of the scholarly debate on the
experiences of migrant domestic workers at a global level in the past as well as in present
time. It tackles the nexus between migration and domestic work with a multi-layered approach.
The book looks into the issue of (paid) domestic work in migratory contexts by investigating
the feminization of migration thereby considering the larger framework within which this
specific phenomenon takes place. The author explains notions such as the international division
of reproductive labor or global care chains which emphasize the inequality in the way care and
domestic tasks are distributed today between middle-class women in receiving nations and
migrant domestic workers. Moreover the book shows how women migrating to work in the domestic
work and private care sector are facing a complex landscape of migration and labor regulations
that are extremely difficult to navigate. At the same time this issue also addresses
employers' households who cannot find appropriate or affordable care among declining welfare
states and national workers reluctant to take the job whilst legal regulations make difficult
to hire a domestic worker who is a third country national. As such this book offers an
interesting read to academics policy makers and all those working in the field.
