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T1 COVID-19 and Decent Work: Online Media Coverage on Indonesian Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Malaysia and Taiwan
A1 Anam, Muhammad Zahrul
A1 Warsito, Tulus
A1 Al-Fadhat, Faris
A1 Pribadi, Ulung
A1 Sugito, Sugito
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Sociología
AB Among all other industries, the spread of COVID-19 also affected the formal labor of different industries including domestic workers at employers’ houses. The main purpose of this study was to analyze the phenomenon that how did full-time Indonesian female migrant domestic workers, in Malaysia and Taiwan, coped with inconvenient employment conditions during the pandemic. This article employed an explanatory qualitative approach. The data sources for this research were from secondary data, which mostly examined data available on online media related to four dimensions of decent work consisting of 1) employment security (losing a job), 2) protection (legally excluded/unregulated workers), 3) vulnerability (physical and mental abuse), and 4) income (low salary). The selected data from both national and international online media were analyzed by using NVivo 12+ software to correlate between the COVID-19 and working conditions of the Indonesian workers in Malaysia and Taiwan. This research reveals that full-time Indonesian female migrant domestic workers, temporarily living in employers’ houses, have coped with inconvenient employment conditions during the pandemic. The findings have argued that COVID-19 caused employment insecurity by limiting potential foreign female domestic workers to find a new job; further, it also raised the insufficient protection that resulted into more vulnerability. In terms of income, COVID-19 also contributed to salary deduction for female workers in Malaysia and Taiwan.
SN 1989-8487
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/48557
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/48557
LA eng
NO Sociology and Technoscience; Vol 11 No 2 (2021): Pandemics and its aftermath in Southeast Asia pags. 160-193
DS UVaDOC
RD 25-sep-2024