Domestic and caregiving work dates back 150 years and was/still performed by racialized women migrants in Canada. Care-giving is often viewed as ‘low-skilled’ work thus women especially from South-East Asia are exploited financially, psychologically as well as physically. One of the ways that many of these women have the opportunity to gain Canadian Permanent Residence/Citizenship status is through the Live-in Caregiver Program thus leaving their own families behind. The global care chain looks at the exchange of care labour and resources from underdeveloped to developed countries through the employment of women from poor backgrounds into middle-class homes as caregivers (Parrenas). This paper will focus on how global care chains (the …show more content…
growing inequalities between high- and low-income countries, and insecurity, vulnerability, and instability due to economic crises combine with gender-related factors such as abuse, family conflict, and discrimination to increase the numbers of women who migrate in order to obtain paid work.” Female workers from developing countries such as the Philippines are at high demand to take on ‘low-wage service labour’ in the global North. According to Ann Stewart’s work, Filipina workers characterized their work experiences as “the way in which state seemed to treat them as economic commodities rather than citizens and led to the immediate passage of the ‘magna carta’ of migrant worker rights” (Stewart,2011). She also references that there’s a high significant number of Filipinas working abroad depicting the Philippines as a “major exporter of its labour” (Stewart, 2011), this is because of the “low rates of foreign investment, instability, high unemployment, low wages and poverty” (Stewart, 2011) thus there’s no high paying jobs. The Live- in care giver program can be viewed as a liability determinant that has diminished the importance of migrant caregivers as active participant in the global market,
The problem is accentuated by the widening of the gap between rich and poor, that can be translated in this matter as an increase of difficulty for low-income families to have access to the much more expensive high quality day care options. There are several aspects that built such a controversial situation and the most important are certainly the cultural and economical ones. The huge growth in women’s independence and professional ambition, in addition to importance, of the last decades, caused the fall of the cultural basis that have always taken for granted the responsibility of the mother as the full-time caregiver (Chisholm 38). Now women are more willing to gain a successful and respectable place in society, and this can be achieved almost exclusively through hard work and full immersion in their jobs. Simultaneously, the economical situation of our society caused many families to depend on two incomes to satisfy the basic needs. In fact, the increase in the cost of living not sufficiently balanced by a relatively smaller rise in wages, and a greater attitude toward materialism and conspicuous consumption, have given women the same financial responsibility as men (Chilman 451). This aspect can be fully applied only on families with an average income or better, because professional daycare programs are pretty expensive and in some cases can reach prices higher than the minimum wage. Those factors
Because immigrant parents could not afford to keep their babies, they were abandoned to the street where there was “not one instance of even a well-dressed infant having been picked up…” (Riis, 68). With majority of the abandoned infants coming from such poor conditions and left in even worse, those in the upper and middle class became horrified with the circumstances immigrants were living in when they came to America. Because very few men could not find jobs and women were culturally forbidden (with their native culture) to work, many women worked as “nurses” for abandoned babies, possibly even ones they may have left themselves (Riis,
Stereotyping is when a judgement is made on a group of people because of the actions of a few. Stereotyping happens because of misinformation and other people’s opinions.
Procedures also outline how to deal with disciplinary issues, allegations of abuse, managing risk, deal with grievance or death, respond to emergencies that we have in which supports us on how we work effectively and correctly which allows us to give the best level of care we can give to individuals.
Although immigrant women play a big role in America’s society and economy, they have been constantly mistreated and looked down upon throughout history. Not only do they face the burden of the stratifications that their gender entails but they also struggle to adopt the American culture and norms. America was viewed as the land of opportunities and economic prosperity, a perspective that draws in many immigrant women who were willing to leave their families and possessions to come to this foreign country in hopes of a better life. In America, they faced many challenges as they not only had to work long hours but also took care of their families and do housework as well. They struggled to make a standard living out of low wage jobs and assimilating into America’s society. Today, the treatment of immigrant women has improved greatly as they have stood together and fought for their rights. Immigrant women have built communities and held strikes for better pay and treatment. Although America has made great strides in improving treatment of immigrant women, there is still social injustice. Immigrant women have come a long way from the first time they entered America until now, but their stories are often left untold and omitted from American history.
The book “Global Woman” edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild focuses on the lives of women that leave their third world country to work in homes as nannies or servants and others even sex work. These women take on that labor without knowing what results will come from their desperate action. The authors explain and recount the stories of many of the women whom have had to sacrifice their lives. These women sacrifice it all to provide for themselves and their families and give them a better life, this is told through different chapters.
The Temporary Foreign Workers allows Canadian employers to hire foreign nationals to fill temporary labor and skill shortages when qualified Canadian citizens or permanent residents are not available for the migrant. (Canada, Canada, & Branch, 2015) Migrant workers can stay in Canada for 4 years and later apply for residency since it is not available for them at that time. There are four examples of Temporary Foreign workers: Skill workers are migrant workers who get selected to immigrate to Canada because of their work experience and skills. Un-skill workers are migrant workers that get selected to immigrate to Canada but do not have any experience or kills. Seasonal workers are migrant workers who work in farmland and gardens who only work for that certain time in the season. Live in/Live out caregivers are migrant workers who resides in and provides childcare, senior home support care or the disabled without supervision in the private household in Canada.(Reserved, 2011) I’ll briefly explain the impact on migrant workers through an article by Donald Payne, an Academic article, Government article and Assigned weekly reading. Also though out the stages of Micro, Mezzo, Macro and Transnational level.
This suggests that the current system of multiculturalism is still creating economical inequalities for the immigrants, because how it fails to accommodate for the individual’s abilities (Man, 2004, p.139). For example, there are often aids provided by the government for women with children that mostly focuses on helping the child adapt to the Canadian environment. This makes it hard for the mother, whose culture demands her to stay home and take care of her children, to fully devote to her career (Man, 2004, p.143). As a result, most women are settled for low-paying jobs or even
This chapter is basically about immigrant women leaving their family and home to a foreign country. Women from the Philippines, India, and Mexico become a “domestic worker” Domestic Worker are basically nannies, and house cleaners that lives with the family.
When analyzing the global health care crisis, one should pay particular attention of the problem from both the macro and micro scale. Overlooking either side of the issue wastes both valuable time and resources during an era that cannot afford such loss. Some argue that health care is a fight that politicians must win to enact change. Others say the crisis is simply another economic matter that will eventually resolve itself under the theories of supply and demand. When we look at these explanations without seriously considering the issues that arise in the microcosm, we expose ourselves to moral hazard. In Banker to the Poor (1), Nobelaureate Muhammad Yunus describes how a great deal of change can result from looking at the problem from a
Task 1 requires you to submit a written piece of work covering all learning outcomes (LO1s, LO2s & LO3s) with a reflective account embedded in the context of work.
This refers to the negative attitudes and actions of householders towards their domestic workers. With a long history associating with slavery, paid domestic work today still under the shadow of slavery and have raised some eyebrows from a certain population. This backward thinking eventually lead to the employer mistreating the worker, due to the worker still being seen as servant. Furthermore, the fact that majority of domestic workers are women exposed them to domestic threats such as psychological, physical and sexual abuse. These hazards are heighten due to their isolation, abandonment from recruitment/broker agencies, lack of ability to search support and job insecurity. Recalling the story of Latika (Begum, 2016), in addition to being overworked and underpaid, Latika was also has her passport confiscated, beaten when asked about salary, has her hair brutally cut and her feet burned with hot water. She eventually fled from her employer, however, concerns raised as to why Latika would stay for over five months, even though the mistreatment occurred from day one. Stories like Latika’s are not uncommon, as millions of women are end up in domestic work in a haste of feeding their own families. In poorer countries with little domestic work opportunities, workers often seek employment overseas. Chances of their assigned household mistreating them are unfortunately high. Another story of householders mistreating domestic workers surround Thelma Oyasan Gawidan, a Filipina domestic workers in Singaporean. Gawidan’s employers, couple Lim Choon Hong and Chong Sui Foon, have limit her access to food consumption, providing her with only two meals a day at odd times and little food, resulting Gawidan to lost her weight from 49kg to 29kg. Gawidan also has to ask permission when wish to drink water, forbade to use the household’s toilet, and only allowed to shower once or twice a
The ILO report has shown, housemaid workers are present in every single country for which data are available. They cook, clean and wash, look after children and elderly people in need of care, and take care of a myriad of other daily duties in households. Based on official statistics from 117 countries and territories, the new ILO estimates presented in this report point to 52.6 million housemaid workers across the world at the end of 2010. 56 Around the 43.7 million female housemaids were employed across the world in the year 2010.57 As a single occupational category, this is a huge workforce. Housemaid work is therefore an important entry point for women in the labour market, and so improving working conditions in the sector has broader ramifications for greater gender equality in society.
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Nicole Constable, in Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers describes the physical and psychological lives of those domestic workers in the homes of Chinese in Hong Kong, their attitude towards their own lives and work, and the attitudes of the workers and the Chinese toward one another. Constable’s primary purpose, from a scholarly perspective, is to document the particulars of the lives of these women for others interested in labor relations, cross-cultural attitudes, class differences, and the role of the state in regulating foreign workers. This anthropological and historical study of the lives of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong