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Female migrant workers and domestic employees need a security net -Rohini Mitra and Aarohi Damle

-TheWire.in

The lack of a cohesive legislative framework stigmatises domestic workers and is a colossal disservice to those who rely on domestic labour for their livelihood.

Shipra Mondal has been a migrant for almost her entire life. Having first moved villages after marriage, Mondal has since shifted around, within the state of West Bengal, numerous times and now lives in a slum in East Kolkata. Her husband works at a construction site, while she works as a domestic labourer in the houses of upper-middle-class families in the vicinity.

Her wage is entirely self-negotiated and depends on her employer’s goodwill. Often, when she falls sick or has to go home to her village in the Sundarbans, her employer finds a replacement and she has to look for a new household to work for.

Shipra represents a demographic that has expanded exponentially in recent years. The domestic care industry is one of the largest, yet least regulated, worldwide. The International Labour Organisation (2015) estimates that of the 67 million domestic workers (above the age of 15) across the globe, 80% are women. The last few decades have witnessed an increase in urbanisation and female migration, and the labour force, both of which are connected to domestic work. Domestic work is a phenomenon associated with each of these, with rural-urban female migrants representing one of the most vulnerable groups likely to be working as domestic labour. In recent years, paid domestic work has emerged as one of the most gender distinctive aspects of urban-ward labour migration.

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