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- | ====== Domestic Workers In Cyprus - Introductory Statement/ | ||
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- | **Introduction** | ||
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- | Antifa Lefkoşa as a collective began in December of 2014 following the hunger strikes of Iranian detainees in the migrant detention centre of Menoyia in 2013. The group’s concerns have centred primarily on issues regarding the politics of migration in Cyprus and Europe and we have mobilised around them through actions such as demonstrations at the detention centre, a demonstration and microphone intervention in Nicosia, and presentations of the pamphlet that we wrote last December. The pamphlet consists of a study of the Cypriot state’s historical regulation and management of migration on the island, focusing closely on the processes and conditions by which a part of the migrant workforce is systemically criminalized as ‘illegal’, | ||
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- | According to the 2013 count, 30952 domestic workers reside in Cyprus, the majority of which are from the Philippines, | ||
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- | So what does the employment contract that the Cypriot State has enforced upon migrant domestic workers entail? She is not allowed to change employer or the location of her work during the duration of the contract, she must work 6 days a week, 7 hours a day, she must “obey all the commands and directions of her employer”, | ||
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- | Of course the list of exploitation extends beyond the constraints of the contract. Through unpaid working hours, unpaid work in the houses of relatives, forced labour on Sundays, the withholding of wages, the withholding of travel documents as a means to extort and threaten, the restriction of movement after work, the restriction of communication with family and through sexual violence etc. etc. But there’s more, migrant women pay from 1500 to 4800 euros to agents in order to find work. In almost all cases they must borrow money, or mortgage property to get hold of these sums, leaving many women even more dependent through relations of debt to their Cypriot employers. | ||
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- | Moving onwards, in a study conducted in 2010, 25% of domestic workers stated that they felt undervalued from their social environment and 20% that they felt social exclusion. 14% stated that they had faced sexual harassment, 12% specified that they had experienced physical violence at the hands of their employer and 6% that they had been sexually exploited. Additionally, | ||
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- | Domestic workers can be considered to be subjects at the centre of a concentration of relations of domination, produced through the social and economic categories of ‘race’, | ||
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