Migrant Domestic Workers

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This article considers that there is a specific demand for migrant domestic workers in UK. It discusses how a migrant population can make it easier not only to find domestic workers, but also to help them. Also the author talks about how employer may have an easier relationship with employees if workers are migrants. Employers are not only looking for generic “‘foreignness’ however, but typically also seek particular nationalities or ethnicities of worker, which can raise difficulties for agencies who are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of ‘race’”. Europe people will bring more youth migrant labour because when the elderly citizens have retried they need same one to take care of them. The elderly will be cared by human beings, the …show more content…

The host families not interest to hire un pair male, because most of the family have teenagers in their house and they want to protect their children. They want the men to work as gardening and a window cleaning. Also, they just do not like to hire the citizen because the idea of social class, the class conflict between the upper class and the lower class. The class conflict makes it difficult and uncomfortable living the house with the UK citizen. This social conflict does not have any problem with someone from a different country because there is none of lower, middle or upper class, it just a different race. Another indicated that if you hire the person you know much easier than if you do not know the person because, everything goes smoothly, this is another reason why they UK wants migrant domestic workers. Moreover, the local worker does not want to work either because the pay is too …show more content…

There is a difference between who are planning to make as much money as they can and return to their country and who are simply planning to make as much and then UK citizen. Moreover the migrant may be more prepared to work in situations because they came from the poor life system as compared to UK citizen. Migrant labours are more care worker for the host families and accomplish their job effectively. Migrate is easier to control because they do not have a lot of options, and they are luck of opportunity so the advantages are they stay in one place. The Migrate left their country, family, children because of the money so whether the job is caring or cleaning work or both, or live in or live out they just accepted the consequence and also they do not question the kind of work they are expected to

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