“We are human beings too,” Migrant Domestic Workers’ Rights in Singapore

• Main Author: Popiolek, M.
• Other Authors: YSI Asia Convening 2019
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: H. : ĐHKT 2020
• Subjects: Social movements; Foreign domestic workers; Feminization of migration; Gender
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/70849
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

This paper examines how social movements operate to negotiate rights for foreign domestic workers in Singapore. The leading advocacy non-governmental organisations, Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) and Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) establish a case study for this analysi...