5.1 Facts and fictions about white non-Hispanic US-born domestic workers in the USA – are we missing something? Working paper. Deliverable D5.1 within the MAJORdom project

The purpose of this working paper is to: 1. present the idea of the MajorDOM project, whose purpose is to address the above mentioned gap in research on domestic workers who are neither ethnic nor racial minorities’ members, 2. to report on the project’s activities so far, including working with activist organizations, qualitative interviews and statistical data analysis 3. formulate first thoughts and questions stemming from the research so far, which evolve around the issue of a gap or discontinuity between the racial and/or ethnic composition of household workforce, of the activist organizations, and the public perceptions of the sector.