A Regime Analysis: Evidence from Sri Lankan Migrant Domestic Workers’ Journeys to Saudi Arabia

In this article, I use qualitative methods to examine the concept of a regime for migrant care based on Sri Lankan women’s transnational mobility as domestic workers Saudi Arabia. My work thus contributes growing body literature regimes from Global South perspective, which date has still received insufficient scholarly attention. The Lanka–Saudi regime, shaped by consciousness possibilities accumulation and production through reproductive labour, is located at convergence “translocal” gender, care, employment migration systems. (re)produced relations tensions between family, state market in an interchange dynamics capitalist forces structural various levels. colour “brown” emerged new racial classification global sector, where power subjectivity are constantly evolving. argue that work, continues be constructed “women’s work”, represents embodiment both subordination women their personal autonomy. This, turn, broader implications meaning feminine/masculine, motherhood/fatherhood, home work. KEYWORDS: paid labour; workers; regime; Arabia; Lanka