Organizing Domestic Care Workers in Germany and the U.S. intersectionally: A comparative overview and analysis.

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Abstract

Worker Centers such as the United Domestic Workers in California and the Domestic Workers United in the U.S. and Fair Mobility in Germany are bettering the rights of transnational domestic care workers in both Germany and the United States. While worker centers in Germany focus on migration and labor rights, worker centers in the U.S. focus on transnationalism, migration, and race. In this article, I explain how worker centers work with domestic care workers in both Germany and the United States. Specifically, I analyze and discuss the work of Germany and U.S.-American Worker Centers with migrant domestic care workers from Eastern European countries such as Poland and Romania in Germany to support domestic care workers in combating migration regimes while considering the intersectional dimensions such as race, class, gender, and migration.

Author

• Gülten Gizem Fesli, University of Bayreuth