Immigrant women working in domestic services in Turkey and economic violence

Immigrant women working in domestic services in Turkey and economic violence A group of women had to leave their countries and migrate to Turkey recently due to the global destructive effects of neoliberal policies. We aim at investigating the issue of ‘economic violence’ these women have been subjected to. This migration is due to the devaluation of female labor force, it is becoming a reserve labor, the impossibility for these women to access resources and the subsequent impoverishment to which all these factors led. The unorganized character of the female labor force, its concentration on unskilled tasks, its heavy presence in informal economy, itsinabilityto resist to deregulation and the gradual disappearance of the welfare state accelerated the mobility of the female labor force made these immigrant women a means of welfare transfer. Here, an attempt was made to understand through interviews whether immigrant women in Turkey are subjected to ‘economic violence’