Working In These Times Facing Common Struggles, Domestic Workers
Mobilize Across Borders The United States isn't unique when it
comes to political and social crises related to immigration.
Migrants in other parts of the world face similar, sometimes
much harsher struggles. Even those who are "legal" are often
extremely vulnerable to economic exploitation, racial
discrimination, and physical and sexual abuse. Abuse and
enslavement of migrant and domestic workers from Asia and Africa
has become epidemic in the Middle East. In the wake of the
suicide of an abused Ethiopian worker, Alem Dechasa-Desisa,
whose story helped galvanize migrant rights campaigns, the issue
has moved into the media spotlight lately: Stories of migrants
dying on the job or taking their own lives are not uncommon,
underscoring how their lives can be undervalued once they're
swept into a "disposable" household workforce. Migrant women in
particular struggle often with abusive employers and sexual
harassment. This video is part of a grassroo