Kitchen Girl Activists: Domestic Worker Global Policy Coalitions

This paper portrays the development of a domestic worker movement through mobilization around Convention 189. With the prospect of the first policy protection through the International Labor Organization, domestic workers around the world joined forces to bring their struggle directly to the negotiation of their rights. Unlike any other policy process, the International Domestic Workers Network positioned their own social locations as a site of policy advocacy, progressive action and movement building. This session explores the intersection of a burgeoning international movement of migrant household workers and the centrality of care policy in the global scope of human rights protections.