“¡Parece que estamos aquí solo para limpiar!”: latinoamericanas denunciando su abocamiento a trabajos domésticos en una radio feminista de Madrid

Abstract

ABSTRACT Migratory policies, in combination with ethno-racial, gender and class stereotypes, have channeled Latin American women into the domestic sector in Spain. The articulation of these stereotypes with an old colonial ideology associates these women with servitude and docility, which are valued elements for care jobs. Based on ethnographic research that I did with Latin American women of Indigenous backgrounds in a feminist radio station in Madrid called Las Radiantes, I show the existing institutional vulnerability to frequent forms of abuse that they face in domestic jobs and their typecasting in this sector. Far from being passive, they search for solutions in different feminist and immigrant organizations in Madrid, where they face similar vulnerability. Instead, Las Radiantes becomes an instrument of extraordinary value for them to empower and project a protest voice through radio programs and other creative forms of expression.