ABSTRACT
Domestic workers constitute a significant part of the global workforce, but are seldom acknowledged as such. The experience of being a domestic worker and the role these workers take up in the societies in which they work is spatially variegated. While domestic work is always embedded in the micro-geographies of the household, the global domestic labour force is highly mobile and many, often young women, cross continents to work for other families. Domestic workers tend to migrate to urban labour markets in search of employment, but often find themselves culturally marginalized in foreign cities. This is why mobility and urban citizenship are both key concepts in which to understand domestic workers as subjects.
