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Domestic work and domestic workers have increasingly come into the international spotlight. Their growing numbers, expansion of the sector, integration into global care chains, job opportunities – including the potential for upward mobility and recent advances in the normative framework for all domestic workers – the ILO Convention No. 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, 2011, and others that formalize this category of informal service sector work have drawn domestic work and domestic workers from the margins to the center of the migration-development discourse and action.
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ILO Convention No. 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers (adopted on June 16, 2011), the CEDAW General Recommendation No. 26 on Women Migrant Workers and the Migrant Committee’s General Comment on Migrant Domestic Workers. These instruments are treated as complementary and mutually reinforcing, given their similarities, albeit different emphases, processes, constituencies, and levels of ratification.
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D’Cunha, J. (2012). Textbox 4: Global Care Workers at the Interface of Migration and Development. In: Omelaniuk, I. (eds) Global Perspectives on Migration and Development. Global Migration Issues, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4110-2_8
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