SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Conflict Avoidance
30 Mar 2016
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Chapter 17 the politics of family and immigration in the subordination of domestic. Domestic workers overregulated while their working conditions are under-regulated: working conditions may not be safe, may be abusive, they have to fill in a 2-year live-in work requirement for citizenship, as a consequence, these workers are exploited. History of domestic service: pre-industrial europe and north america. Servants did domestic and physical labour: early industrial era. The west indian domestic scheme (1955: caribbean and jamaica, single women without children were coming to canada to be domestics, had to be here for 1 year working before moving on to other fields of work. The foreign domestic movement (fdm) program (1981: allowed foreign domestics who had worked in canada for 2 years apply for immigrant status (but it didn"t guarantee this) The live-in caregiver program (1992: seen as somewhat an improvement, why reform is unlikely. What do domestic workers experience: forced separation, exploitation, abuse.
