A vast majority of the UN-estimated 60 million migrant\u00a0workers in Asia are women, and the issue of domestic
\nworkers (DWs) in the region is hardly new. In most cases,\u00a0these women are engaged in domestic work in Malaysia,
\nHong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China, Singapore, Thailand, Macau, India, Taiwan, Province of China and\u00a0the Middle East. Most of them come from Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand\u00a0and Lao PDR.<\/p>\n
The domestic workers are driven to engage in domestic work\u00a0for various reasons \u2013 most common of which is the endemic\u00a0poverty in their homes that makes it impossible for them to\u00a0have job opportunities in other industries or fields of work.\u00a0For most of these women, they are driven out of their own\u00a0countries in the hopes of earning better incomes abroad\u00a0while they provide domestic services to foreign employers.\u00a0This puts domestic workers in one of the most insecure of\u00a0environments where work is often casual, temporary, subcontracted\u00a0or informal, where benefits and conditions are\u00a0not standardised \u2013 no minimum wage, no set working hours,\u00a0no social security, and no provisions for occupational safety\u00a0\u2013 and where there is little, if any, labour and human rights\u00a0protection. Domestic workers also lack access to health care\u00a0and holiday facilities. There are also child migrant domestic\u00a0workers who are deprived of getting education.<\/p>\n
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