Abstract
Based on gender studies on migration and using the conceptual tools of critical theory (Benhabib and Fraser), this article emphases the migrant women inclusion difficulties in the host communities, especially in the European Union, and how they claim the status of human and labor rights holders. In this sense, her analysis begins by stressing how migration is not a gender neutral phenomenon and, consequently, how the activism of «migrant women» in the transnational constellation is matched by the feminization of migration and precarity. With focus on the migrant domestic and care workers, this paper arguments: on the one hand, the vulnerability of these women by the use of the «existential hyper-precarity» concept; and, on the other hand, the mobilization of these women in NGOs and community organizations, in an intense campaign for the recognition of labour rights, using the «active industrial citizenship» concept. It is concluded, therefore, that as active agents the «migrant women» contribute to the configuration of a socially, economically and culturally more just world, more inclusive of women and foreigners.
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