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   * **This Leaflet is Bilingual (Greek, English).**   * **This Leaflet is Bilingual (Greek, English).**
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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’,’ gender’, and ‘class’. These structures of domination and violence constitute a vicious cycle, each feeding into each other, each accentuating the force of the process of their exploitation that domestic workers endure. Their status as migrants and women sets the conditions for their precarity and depreciation as workers. Their undervaluation as workers contributes to the aggravation of the violence they face and encounter as migrants and women through racism and sexism on an everyday level. An intersection of ‘race’ and ‘class’, on a legal and institutional level for example, is clear when we consider that domestic workers are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Interior, specifically to the department of migration and population and not the Ministry of Labour- thus, are barred from access to basic workers’ rights such as union organization, or access to social insurance unless they have acquired citizenship by some miracle. Moreover, domestic work has been historically undervalued as it traditionally takes place within the private sphere of the home, characterized by unpaid, unrecognized work done by women. The home, additionally, is a space of relative urban geographical isolation, a space that lends itself not only toward the total disciplining and surveillance of domestic workers by their employer, but also directly creates the conditions that enforce the invisibility of these bodies and their struggles, that labour within our own homes. 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’,’ gender’, and ‘class’. These structures of domination and violence constitute a vicious cycle, each feeding into each other, each accentuating the force of the process of their exploitation that domestic workers endure. Their status as migrants and women sets the conditions for their precarity and depreciation as workers. Their undervaluation as workers contributes to the aggravation of the violence they face and encounter as migrants and women through racism and sexism on an everyday level. An intersection of ‘race’ and ‘class’, on a legal and institutional level for example, is clear when we consider that domestic workers are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Interior, specifically to the department of migration and population and not the Ministry of Labour- thus, are barred from access to basic workers’ rights such as union organization, or access to social insurance unless they have acquired citizenship by some miracle. Moreover, domestic work has been historically undervalued as it traditionally takes place within the private sphere of the home, characterized by unpaid, unrecognized work done by women. The home, additionally, is a space of relative urban geographical isolation, a space that lends itself not only toward the total disciplining and surveillance of domestic workers by their employer, but also directly creates the conditions that enforce the invisibility of these bodies and their struggles, that labour within our own homes.
  
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