Domestic slavery of irregular women migrants. Cinderellas of the 21st century, but without a prince to rescue them.

Abstract

The failure of negotiations for equality within households has been resolved by the exploitation of the thousands of migrant women who are excluded from the market. A transfer of inequalities between employers and employees, which too often involves the exploitation of those who, driven by necessity, endure all kinds of abuse for fear of being reported and deported. The lawless, rightless and witnessless underworld of domestic employment makes them perfect victims of exploitation in all its forms (labor and sexual) and degrees (including forced labor, servitude and slavery). With the interrelationship between irregular female migration and domestic slavery now evident, it is time to make visible and analyze the response given to this form of human exploitation, which is as frequent as it is invisible and intolerable in a State of Law.