“The last year has seen an increase in wage theft, and there is an urgent need for transnational
mechanisms to deal with this.”#DevMa ers
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There are key questions we need to ask ourselves and the governments:
Why did able-bodied, productive individuals struggle for food and shelter in some of the richest
countries in the world? What combination of policies and prejudices leads to this situation?
With so li le public investment made in social welfare, the dependence on live-in domestic workers
is only likely to increase. How do we ensure recognition of domestic work as work, and domestic
workers as workers, formalising their status in the labour market?
How do we then break the monopoly of live-in domestic work that is inherently exploitative?
The ghe oisation of migrant labour is both the root cause and the result of discrimination. In many
Gulf Co-operation Council states, migrants constitute the majority of the population and their needs
are deliberately neglected in urban planning.
The last year has seen an increase in wage theft, and there is an urgent need for transnational
mechanisms (h ps://justiceforwagetheft.org/) to deal with this.
In the coming years, climate change, population imbalances and economic distress will increase
migrants’ vulnerabilities, and solutions cannot be rooted in the current environment of inequity and
discrimination.
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