Migrant Domestic Workers

I believe that employing a migrant domestic worker is not an act of sisterhood toward a women in need or of complicity with abusive power structures. Even though the employer saved them from torturing by abusive power, but they did not fully consider other issues. For example, some domestic workers might consider themselves as a part of the employer’s family. However, when the employer decides to terminate their relationship, the worker would feel more helpless than before. Also, saving one domestic worker doesn’t mean they are helping them. As Bridget Anderson mentions in her essay “Just Another Job? The Commodification of Domestic Labor,” “Real sisterhood, then, should take concerned women beyond their own homes: it means campaign and organizing