工作场所的尊严和人权侵犯:印度家庭女工的交叉脆弱性

IF 1.4 Q2 SOCIAL WORK
Chitra Karunakaran Prasanna, Lekha Divakara Bhat, Sumalatha Bevinje Subbyamoola, Sandra Moolan Joseph
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本文通过交叉视角探讨了印度家庭女工在工作场所面临的尊严和人权侵犯问题。该国有5000多万家庭佣工,主要是妇女,她们在工作中面临多重结构性脆弱性。现有关于家庭佣工的文献更多地侧重于侵犯经济劳动权利。在印度,每天在工作场所失去尊严、羞辱和侵犯人权的主观体验仍然相对未被探索。在这方面,对来自米佐拉姆邦、泰米尔纳德邦和喀拉拉邦三个选定邦的600名家庭女工进行了一项调查。研究小组对家政工人进行了6次焦点小组讨论,对非政府组织人员和活动人士进行了10次深度访谈。采用混合方法方法,其中使用了定量和定性工具,然后进行数据整合,以概述正在调查的现象。该研究确定了工作场所中多种形式的限制和禁止,通过这些限制和禁止发生对家庭佣工的歧视和侮辱,侵犯了她们的权利和尊严。本文认为,女性家政工人极易受到剥削,她们在性别、种姓、阶级和种族方面的身份造成了复杂形式的交叉劣势。家务劳动的女性化以及随之而来的劳动价值的贬值,使得交织在一起的不利条件、羞辱、骚扰和剥削通常是看不见的。这一设想要求多方利益攸关方采取干预措施和社会行动,创造体面的工作空间,改善家庭女工的工作条件和社会福利。
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Dignity and Human Rights Violations at the Workplace: Intersectional Vulnerability of Women Domestic Workers in India

The paper explored the dignity and human rights violations faced by women domestic workers in India at their workplaces through an intersectional lens. The country has over 50 million domestic workers, primarily women, who face multiple structural vulnerabilities at work. The existing literature on domestic workers focused more on the violations of economic labour rights. The subjective experience of daily loss of dignity, humiliation, and human rights violations at the workplace remains relatively unexplored in India. In this context, a survey was conducted among 600 women domestic workers from three selected States – 200 each in Mizoram, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. The research team held six focus group discussions with domestic workers and ten in-depth interviews with NGO personnel and activists. A mixed methodology approach was employed, wherein quantitative and qualitative tools were used, followed by data integration to outline the phenomena under enquiry. The study identified multiple forms of restrictions and prohibitions in the workspaces through which discrimination and humiliation of domestic workers occur, violating their rights and dignity. The paper argues that women domestic workers are highly vulnerable to exploitation, and their identity in terms of gender, caste, class, and ethnicity, creates complex forms of intersectional disadvantages. The feminisation of domestic work and the consequent devaluation of work make the intersectional disadvantages, humiliation, harassment, and exploitation generally invisible. The scenario calls for multi-stakeholder interventions and social action to create decent workspaces to improve the working conditions and social well-being of women domestic workers.

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期刊介绍: This journal offers an outlet for articles that support social work as a human rights profession. It brings together knowledge about addressing human rights in practice, research, policy, and advocacy as well as teaching about human rights from around the globe. Articles explore the history of social work as a human rights profession; familiarize participants on how to advance human rights using the human rights documents from the United Nations; present the types of monitoring and assessment that takes place internationally and within the U.S.; demonstrate rights-based practice approaches and techniques; and facilitate discussion of the implications of human rights tools and the framework for social work practice.
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