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• W135938666 abstract "This thesis provides an in-depth, ethnographic case study of women who have migrated from Lesotho to work as domestic workers in South Africa. It explores and analyses these women’s experiences of migration and employment, while examining the impacts of the Lesotho-South Africa border on their lives. The border is conceptualised in this thesis not merely as a territorial frontier but as an apparatus operating throughout a constellation of social and geographical sites. This apparatus is seen to produce migrant subjectivities. In the case of Basotho migrant domestic workers, it produces and disciplines them as ‘illegal’ migrant workers. These women’s ‘illegality’ is continually reproduced not only legally, but socially and discursively as well. It also arises from the repeated ostensible failure of migration and labour law to restrict women’s access to territory or the labour market. Through their ‘illegality’, Basotho domestics are produced as a form of un-bounded labour. The hyphenated term ‘un-bounded’ captures both boundedness and unboundedness. Basotho domestics and their labour migration appear unbounded, as in unrestricted or unregulated. However, women’s subjective experiences reveal their bounding and confinement – geographically, socially, spatially, economically, in the employment relationship, and in terms of their invisibility. Basotho women’s un-bounding and their subjectivity as ‘illegal’ migrant workers create a division between South Africa as the site of ‘work’ and Lesotho as the site of ‘family’ or ‘life’. Women’s social lives and identities, together with their family members, become bounded within Lesotho; within South Africa, their identity and subjectivity is reduced to that of ‘worker’. In order to maintain employment, family and life, women must manage a range of perpetual cross-border circulations, with regular remittances and visits home. As ‘illegal’ migrants, their experience of employment is also unique, as they are produced as dismissible, exploitable, dependent, submissive and ultimately dehumanised workers. Borderwork therefore carries three meanings in this thesis: the ‘work’ of many individuals and institutions in continually constructing the border as a social and legal reality; the impacts of the border on Basotho migrant domestic workers’ experience of employment; and women’s everyday strategies for negotiating and ‘working’ this border. Basotho migrant domestic workers and their difficult circumstances have to date been largely ignored by scholars and policy-makers alike. Drawing on these women’s own accounts, this rich analysis also challenges and extends scholarly understandings of borders, labour migration, ‘illegality’ and development. The significance and implications of this thesis therefore extend beyond the specific case study." @default.
• W135938666 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W135938666 creator A5001504676 @default.
• W135938666 date "2010-01-01" @default.
• W135938666 modified "2023-09-23" @default.
• W135938666 title "Borderwork: ‘Illegality’, un-bounded labour and the lives of Basotho migrant domestic workers" @default.
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