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April 10, 2026Feminist Legal StudiesOpen Access

Legal Mechanisms of Invisibilisation: Exclusion and Differentiation

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MSMaria Sagmeister

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This article explores exclusion and differentiation in legal mechanisms, highlighting their impact on migrant care workers' rights.

Key Points

  • The article aims to analyze how legal frameworks contribute to the invisibility of migrant domestic care work in Austria.
  • Examines feminist legal scholarship on invisible work
  • Identifies mechanisms of exclusion and differentiation in legal context
  • Traces historical legal treatment of domestic care work in Austria
  • Exclusion from protective labour laws leads to reduced visibility for care work
  • Legal differentiation further perpetuates the devaluation of domestic care work
  • Formalized structures still result in lesser protection for migrant care workers

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Maria Sagmeister (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d896a46c1944d70ce083b0https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-025-09594-z
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