domestic workers
My Family Didn’t Have Slaves, But We Had Servants
Growing up in Pakistan before moving to Canada as a teen, I now feel terrible about how my family treated them.
Modern-Day Slaves: Filipina Labor Trafficking Survivors Tell Their Own Stories
"My Family's Slave," a controversial personal essay published in The Atlantic last week, brought the oft-ignored issue of domestic labor trafficking to national attention.
Inside the Dubious Schools Training Filipina Women for Domestic Work Overseas
In the Philippines, becoming a live-in domestic employee abroad is a chance to provide for themselves and their families. But they often face exploitation and debt from training centers.
Inside the Dubious Schools Training Filipina Women for Domestic Work Overseas
For working-class women in the Philippines, becoming a live-in domestic employee abroad is a chance to provide for themselves and their families. But they often face exploitation and debt from training centers, employment agencies, and the employers...
What a World Without Female Migrant Workers Would Look Like
Around the world, female migrant workers perform the bulk of domestic labor in households that are not their own—but their work is often invisible. An expert explains what would happen if these women did not exist.
Inside the Underground Efforts to Liberate Saudi Arabia's Domestic Workers
VICE News spoke to some of the individuals and organizations working to help abused domestic workers escape Saudi Arabia. Somalia has just announced an agreement to send 50,000 women there each year.
Where Maids Are Treated Like Slaves
Sexual abuse, harassment and 21-hour days—for thousands of domestic workers employed in Arab states, being a maid doesn't just mean mopping the floors.
Mexico Imagines a Union for 2.3 Million Domestic Maids — But Could It Work?
Women across Mexico work in private homes without contracts, paid leave, vacations, or protection against abuses. Less than 200 Mexicans house cleaners have signed on so far to join the new union.
How Black Domestic Workers Organized Without 'The Help'
We talked to historian Premilla Nadasen about her new book, "Household Workers Unite," and about how white savior narratives are bullshit.
To Be Raped or to Become a Prostitute in Beirut
Foreign domestic workers in Beirut often have to choose between sexual abuse where they work or escaping and being swept into prostitution.
To Be Raped or to Become a Prostitute
Foreign domestic workers in Beirut often have to choose between facing sexual abuse at the houses they clean or trying to escape and being swept into the underworld of prostitution. Both traffickers and those trying to stop the trafficking agree that...