Abstract
The relation between female migration and domestic work, either paid or unpaid, is a long-standing one. As a result of social inequality between genders, the house, care, reproduction, and domestic tasks have been configured as a female patrimony, which has influenced the life experiences of migrant women as a whole. We started from some premises that allow us to systematize advances and point out possibilities of continuity in the field of international migration and domestic work. First of all, we note that the tendency for women to be assigned tasks mainly in the area of social reproduction affects their permanence in the so-called productive sectors of activity, deepening occupational segregation and the wage gap. Second, we argue that domestic work, in the intersection of its paid and unpaid versions, is a structuring factor in the migratory projects that involve women in their different moments and stages. Finally, we present the articles that make up this dossier on research carried out in Latin American and Spanish contexts with international migrant women workers.
Keywords:
Migrant women; domestic work; social reproduction; care organization