Abstract
This Note focuses on the lack of protection for domestic workers in the United States, this issue calls for international attention. Large numbers of domestic workers leave their home countries for various reasons such as favorable migration policies, lack of work, and a general lack of independence back home. Certain countries like the Philippines and Guatemala are known as “sender” countries because of the huge amount of domestic workers originating from them. In other countries such as Indonesia and Sri Lanka, women make up 60-80% of all migrants. In fact, between 1960 and 2005, an additional sixty million females migrated internationally. The policies of these countries certainly need to be examined so that women stop seeing migration as the only way to achieve their personal and financial goals. Due to the vast globalization over the past two decades, this is not a country-by-country issue, but rather an international problem which need international attention.
Recommended Citation
Paris, Adriana M.
(2012)
"Women Meet the State: Protection for Domestic Workers in the United States,"
Florida Journal of International Law: Vol. 24:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/fjil/vol24/iss1/6