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
around issues of migration and domestic labor, having as an important first demand that domestic work be treated, in the best sense, like just another job” (114). The real act of sisterhood is to support those domestic labor by taking action on the issue. They should let everyone know that domestic workers should not be treated differently as other jobs.