There is a growing movement, much of it led by immigrant women, to give domestic workers — nannies, housecleaners, caregivers — more legal rights and better labor conditions overall.
But part of the challenge, say many of those involved in this movement, is that much of the work done is not always visible and can be undervalued as a result.
What can help change this perception?
— The May Interview: “Swept Under The Rug: Ai-jen Poo On The Plight Of Domestic Workers,” by Anna Blackshaw. (via thesunmagazine)
San Francisco-based filmmaker Theo Rigby created a short documentary called “The Caretaker” about Joesy Gerrish, who is from Fiji.
After a screening in Sebastopol, California, members of the audience wrote down their answers to questions, including this one: Who is going to take care of the people you love?
How would you answer the question?
Nannies, housecleaners, caregivers—they are sometimes called the world’s most invisible workforce. In the US alone, it’s estimated that more than 2 million people do this type of work. Most are women and many are immigrants.
As part of our Global Nation coverage, The World’s Monica Campbell has our first piece in a series about domestic workers: http://ow.ly/l4owh
For most of us, when we want to make a major purchase, we apply for a loan. But what if you have no credit score?
That’s the case for many immigrants living in the United States – here legally or not. But one non-profit organization in San Francisco has adopted a novel way to try and change that.
This is a scene from ‘The Caretaker’, the full film will be released with the Immigrant Nation online platform in summer 2012.
The Caretaker is a short film about the relationship between an immigrant caretaker and an elderly woman in the last months of her life. Joesy, a Fijian immigrant, works long hours providing live-in care for 95-year-old Haru Tsurumoto. Through intimate and quiet scenes, we explore Joesy’s complex relationship with Haru. The two respect one another, because at different times, both have felt like outsiders in the U.S. - Joesy as an undocumented immigrant who fears she could be sent back to Fiji, and Haru as a Japanese American who was sent to the internment camps during World War II.
(Source: ow.ly)
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Nannies, housecleaners, caregivers—they are sometimes called the world’s most invisible workforce. In the US alone, it’s estimated that more than 2 million people do this type of work. Most are women and many are immigrants. And pressure is growing to address their working conditions.
As part of our Global Nation coverage, The World’s Monica Campbell has our first piece in a series about domestic workers. http://ow.ly/l4owh
Before you bite into your fast-food chicken, consider this: butchering meat and processing chickens is dangerous, low-paying factory work. And a lot of it in this country is done by immigrant workers - sometimes illegally.
(Photo: A Tyson Foods worker leaving home for the night shift in Noel, Missouri. Photo by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch)
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