Domestic Workers Case Study

Migrant workers in the Middle East are unskilled workers from undeveloped Nations that transport to another country and become household maids to better their life and their family to gain better materials and social conditions. Many of these workers come from impoverished Nations such as South/East Asia and Africa and are lacking education and resources. For years, it has dragged on in failing to protect domestic workers in the Middle East. Many of them experience abuse, paid low wages with almost no time off, are usually restricted from leaving there household, and have excessive hours of work. Many will face abuse, violence, and are discriminated in their everyday lives and can even be forced into being trafficked.

Looking at this topic from the conflict theory perspective I think it would be approached as placing domestic workers at the very bottom of social class, they have very low status. They are being treated with very little respect and are being physically, sexually, and psychologically abused. Domestic workers are being treated like round- the- clock servants. They have to choose between whether they should report their incidences to the police and be in fear of being deported back and losing the small wages they make to gain better materials and social conditions for themselves and for their families or not to report their incidences and be treated the way they are. The Power of a migrant worker rests in the hands of employers because they will hold their immigration papers and can confiscate their passports. Employers consider these domestic workers as their property. I do agree with this perspective because there are many cases resulting where domestic workers have resorted to committing suicide due to horrible li...

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