Advocacy efforts have evolved from fighting to "recognize the position of paid domestic workers" to addressing work conditions and forms of abuse.Stuart C Rosewarne, "The ILO’s Domestic Worker Convention (C189): Challenging the Gendered Disadvantage of Asia’s Foreign Domestic Workers?," Global Labour Journal 4, no. 1 (January 2013): 4. Through time, a number of strategies have been used by international and civil society organizations in the hopes of improving the conditions surrounding migrant domestic work. These have included conventional means of mobilizing, such as rallies,CLAIMING RIGHTS Domestic Workers’ Movements and Global Advances for Labor Reform, 6. protestsCLAIMING RIGHTS Domestic Workers’ Movements and Global Advances for Labor Reform, 12. and public campaigns to raise awareness or improve migrant domestic workers’ conditions.Agency for Fundamental Rights, Migrants in an Irregular Situation Employed in Domestic Work, 43.CLAIMING RIGHTS Domestic Workers’ Movements and Global Advances for Labor Reform, 26.Lan, "Political and Social Geography of Marginal Insiders," 120. Lobbying, at both the national and supranational levels to modify laws Schwenken, "RESPECT for All: The Political Self-Organization of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the European Union," 50. or by trade unions attempting to change the irregular status of migrant domestic workersPiper, "Rights of Foreign Domestic Workers -- Emergence of Transnational and Transregional Solidarity?," 110. has been used as a tactic. Civil society has also played a role in negotiating international legislation such as the International Labour Organization’s Domestic Worker Convention.Rosewarne, "The ILO’s Domestic Worker Convention (C189): Challenging the Gendered Disadvantage of Asia’s Foreign Domestic Workers?," 1.
