Women’s Cityward Migration, Domestic Service and Schooling in Southern Mexico

Jayne Howell ()
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Jayne Howell: Department of Anthropology, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA

Migration Letters, 2006, vol. 3, issue 2, 125-135

Abstract: That 40,000 women work as household workers in Oaxaca City (population 450,000) is deemed “very high for a country as developed as Mexico” (Selby, Murphy and Lorenzon 1991:48; INEGI 2001). Ethnographic data collected among women currently and at one time working as either full-time or daily/hourly domestic workers shed light on the realities faced by unskilled women cityward migrants who find em-ployment in the lowest paid, least prestigious jobs in the ur-ban economy. Two case studies are presented to illustrate ways that women's paid household labor can finance their own or their children's acquisition of the schooling requisite for more gainful, higher paid forms of urban formal sector employment.

Keywords: Oaxacans; Mexico; domestic workers; women; schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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