Le visage indien de la domesticité. Domesticité à demeure et ethnicité à Monterrey, Mexique

Séverine Durin

Revue Tiers-Monde, 2014, vol. n° 217, issue 1, 163-179

Abstract: In this article I analyze the importance of ethnicity in domestic service, an employment sector where indigenous people are overrepresented, and how socio-cultural differences between ethnic groups organize the labor market and relationships between employers and employees. Taking the city of Monterrey ? the third largest city in Mexico ? as an ethnographic setting and based on interviews conducted with employers and employment agencies, I analyze the importance that employers attribute to regional and ethnic origin to assess a priori the capacity of domestic staff for work. The study shows that the representations inherent in this classificatory exercise contribute to the ethnicization of socio-cultural networks and to the reaffirmation of the boundaries between domestic workers and those they serve, between indigenous people and Creoles, the founding couple of Mexican national identity.

Keywords: Domestic service; ethnicity; ethnic niche; indigenous people; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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