UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Worker Centers play a pivotal role in advocating for the rights and conditions of domestic care workers in both Germany and the United States. The thesis of this article contends that Worker Centers, along with care workers themselves, hold transformative potential in reshaping the conditions and rights of domestic care workers in both Germany and the United States. This article analyzes and discusses the work of Germany and U.S.-American Worker Centers with domestic care workers from Eastern European countries such as Poland and Romania in Germany to effect change in working and living conditions of domestic care workers in home care arrangements.

This research paper foregrounds a bricolage methodology based on autoethnographicwriting and analog collage technique to interweave Arab queerness in migratory contexts. By proceeding as such, the paper seeks to open a space for new modalities of crafting of knowledge; notably by bridging creative visual methodologies with critical theories. It also sketches problemspaces(Grossberg, 2010) of Arab queerness by discussing the different nodal points that shape it.