Domestic workers are mainly women, are disproportionately from ethnic minorities and/or international migrants, and are vulnerable to mistreatment, often receiving inadequate protection from labour legislation. This article addresses ways in which the conditions faced by migrant domestic workers can prevent their enjoyment of the right to private and family life. It argues that the focus on this right is illuminating as it allows for the incorporation of issues that are not usually within the remit of labour law into the discussion of working rights, such as access to family reunification, as well as providing for a different perspective on the question of limits on working time – a core labour right that is often denied to domestic workers. These issues are analysed by addressing a case study each from Latin America and Europe, namely Chile and the UK. The article considers impediments to realising the right to private and family life stemming both from the literal border – the operation of immigration controls and visa conditions – and from the figurative border which exists between domestic work and other types of work, reflected in the conflation of domestic workers with family members and stemming from the public/private sphere divide.

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移徙家政工人与私人和家庭生活的权利

家政工人主要是女性，不成比例地来自少数族裔和/或国际移民，容易受到虐待，往往得不到充分的劳动立法保护。本文讨论了移民家庭佣工面临的条件阻碍他们享受私人和家庭生活权利的方式。它争辩说，对这项权利的关注具有启发性，因为它允许将通常不在劳动法范围内的问题纳入工作权利的讨论中，例如获得家庭团聚的机会，以及提供不同的视角关于限制工作时间的问题——家庭工人经常被剥夺的一项核心劳工权利。通过处理来自拉丁美洲和欧洲的案例研究来分析这些问题，即智利和英国。这篇文章认为，实现私人和家庭生活权的障碍来自字面边界——移民控制和签证条件的运作——以及家庭工作和其他类型工作之间存在的象征边界，反映在有家庭成员并源于公共/私人领域鸿沟的家政工人。