Women migrants, tolerated as "the wives of", are given difficult, badly paid, precarious work. Perfectly visible when it is a question of using their labour, they are symbolically made invisible. Over the last forty years, as they have arrived in France, they have built movements, days of action and associations, as well as taken part in the occupation of symbolic buildings claiming the humanitarian right to stay. As the domestic work and cleaning sector has become casualized and hardened through subcontracting, they have demanded labor legislation. Despite the brakes on their action, undocumented women workers have become independent, joined trade unions and organized strikes.

Women domestic workers Women and migration Precariousness Women's Strikes Undocumented women workers

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