Entre la France et la Côte d’Ivoire, la cause des travailleuses du care: Pratiques de la mondialisation et résistances ordinaires

This article analyzes the complex spatial movements and social paths of care workers in a globalized world, based on multi-sited fieldwork: a child care worker union in France and an organization defending the rights of domestic workers in Ivory Coast. The life stories of women traveling between Paris and Abidjan allow understanding how they draw on the social, economic, and political violence experienced in migration to defend the collective interests of domestic workers both in France and Ivory Coast. This approach paves the way for a political ethnography of bottom-up globalization that could mitigate the perception of migrant women in care as a “new subservient class.”