ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the modalities of the setting up of a new domestic regime. It addresses changes in the theory and practice of activities classed as activities of 're-production'. The chapter then considers the development of a global market for domestic services, and ways in which the development of the immigrant workforce in this area brings into question the notions of economic and social citizenship. It reveals the feminisation of poverty in global society and analyses the effects of neo-liberalism from a gendered perspective. The chapter argues that the notion of post-national citizenship still has little real value in the political arena. Even the citizenship status of long term migrants who have access to social rights is reduced by the fact that they are still denied political rights. Finally, the chapter examines the articulations between gender, class and nationality in the treatment of domestic workers in Italy.
