erosion of touristification of domestic and care workers in Lavapies

Abstract

This article studies a collective of domestic and care workers (Territorio Doméstico) who gather and network in the neighborhood of Lavapiés (Madrid), in a process of gentrification-touristification. We analyze the connection between touristification and global care chains in current neoliberalism, of which these women are victims as migrants from the global south, forced to do this work to survive. This collective, in the neighborhood´s spaces and in network with other collectives, aims to improve their working and living conditions; but, in the process (which includes a paramount work on history and memory, which produces union and empathy´s contagion), it generates local and global alternatives for a good life for all. These, which are studied as strategies for the erosion of touristification and capitalism, are based on an ecofeminist and decolonial ethic.