ILO Convention 189 from the Perspective of Migrant Domestic Workers in the Dominican Republic: Qualitative Analysis

Written by Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, this study forms part of the doctoral research project Caring through Borders: the transnational political economy of care through the experiences of migrant Haitian and Dominican Domestic Workers. It compiles testimonies from migrant workers, provides analysis, and develops a series of recommendations.

The author addresses labor rights, human mobility and access to documentation, and the strengthening of social movements that support workers and migrant populations. The study also stresses that with the Dominican state's ratification of ILO Convention 189 in 2016, an opportunity opened to update national labor legislation in relation to domestic workers.

Llavaneras Blanco emphasizes that Convention 189 makes migrant domestic workers visible and establishes measures for their protection, alongside Recommendation 201. She also notes that, together with their Dominican peers, migrant domestic workers were part of the negotiations and conversations that led to the creation of Convention 189, advancing collectively for the rights of all workers.