Date: 2021
Type: Book
Migrant domestic workers in Europe : law and the construction of vulnerability
Oxford ; New York : Hart Publishing, 2021
PAVLOU, Vera, Migrant domestic workers in Europe : law and the construction of vulnerability, Oxford ; New York : Hart Publishing, 2021
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/73431
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
This book explores the often neglected, but overwhelmingly common, everyday vulnerability of those who support the smooth functioning of contemporary societies: paid domestic workers. With a focus on the multiple disadvantages these – often migrant – workers face when working and living in Europe, the book investigates the role of law in producing, reinforcing – or, alternatively, attenuating – vulnerability to exploitation. It departs from approaches that focus on extreme abuse such as 'modern' slavery or trafficking, to consider the much more widespread day-to-day vulnerabilities created at the intersection of different legal regimes. The book, therefore, examines issues such as low wages, unregulated working time, dismissals and the impact of migration status on enforcing rights at work. The complex legal regimes regulating migrant domestic labour in Europe include migration and labour law sources at different levels: international, national and, as this book demonstrates, also EU. With an innovative lens that combines national, comparative, and multilevel analysis, this book opens up space for transformative legal change for migrant domestic workers in Europe and beyond.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/73431
Full-text via DOI: 10.5040/9781509942404
ISBN: 9781509942374; 9781509942404
Publisher: Hart Publishing
LC Subject Heading: Household employees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- European Union countries; Foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- European Union countries; Migrant labor -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- European Union countries; Labor laws and legislation -- European Union countries; Labor laws and legislation -- European Union countries
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/41765
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2016