Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands: Their Condition and Movement

 by Nurus Mufidah and Amira Paripurna

'a book chapter' published on Human Rights and Peace in Southeast Asia Series 7: Relighting the Torch, the Southeast Asian Human Rights and Peace Studies Network (SEAHRN), December 2019, p. 106-119. 

This paper focuses particularly on the condition of MDWs in the Netherlands and explores their condition and movement. It consists of three parts: the first describes the general situation of domestic workers in Europe; the second discusses their working conditions, the main triggers for the flow of Indonesian migrant workers to the Netherlands including historical, economic, and globalization factors, and an analysis of the immigration status, labour rights problems, and movement of Indonesian domestic workers in the Netherlands; followed by a conclusion. Notably, this paper uses social movement theory to analyse the movement of such groups in the country.