Essay On Domestic Inclusion

Inclusion in the domestic sphere has given rise that sparked numerous debates in history. It has made boundaries for women oppressed all over the world who are involved in the domicile as maids, and disparities have been created between the employer and the worker. Inclusion, as defined by the World Bank, is the “process of improving the terms of individuals and groups to take part in society”. In a more narrow perspective, domestic inclusion is about promoting inclusion in the home. However, in the process of a country like Singapore trying to include foreign domestic workers in their citizens’ homes, a high number of cases relating to domestic abuse and discrimination have followed. Majority of these women come from different parts of Southeast Asia like the Philippines, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Although family members

According to anthropologist and sociologist David Pocock (1957), the nature of inclusion and its opposite, exclusion, is based on the foundation of the natural need for people to have hierarchies. It is also said that the sense of belongingness people experience from a day-to-day basis constructs the attitudes of society towards inclusion and exclusion (Fredericks, 2010). From the 19th century servant societies established in Britain, to the discrimination of the blacks in America, these cases are proof of the exclusion happening even up to this day. Social class and race are big factors to determine the entirety of inclusion, which starts and roots down to the walls of a home. For most of the literature written about domestic inclusion, the trends that are apparent are in cases of abuse and violence, leading to government and non-government organisations to decipher how they can help minimise the mess. The focus of the literature review will be based on the cases of Filipino migrant workers and the domestic sphere in which they entered