Tenemos Que Salir Adelante: An Examination of Mexican Immigrant Domestic Workers’ Cccupational Identity on the Texas-Mexico Border

• In Event: Organizational Communication Research Escalator - Extended Session

Abstract

Over the past decade, organizational communication scholars have attempted to “see” other groups of employees, including low paid service workers in an effort to understand how their lived experiences relate to the material world. The importance of underscoring the actual work people “do” by focusing on working bodies and practices rather than abstract representations of work and the organization allows workers to better navigate through their work and life. This ethnography seeks to understand the lived experiences of Mexican immigrant women domestic workers by underscoring their perceptions of occupational life on the Laredo, Texas-Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas Mexico border.

Author

• Ariadne Alejandra Gonzalez, Texas A and M University