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Resumen: Usando la tipología de regímenes laborales de Dingeldey et al. (2021), basada en tres funciones —estandarización, constitución de privilegios e igualación— se estudia la segmentación legal del trabajo en cinco países latinoamericanos (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, México y Uruguay), distinguiendo tres modalidades —ausencia de cobertura, trato diferenciado y elusión de las normas— que se traducen en desigualdad y precariedad laboral. Las legislaciones estudiadas cubren el trabajo asalariado pero no el independiente. La informalidad resulta de la falta de fiscalización y de un entorno productivo desfavorable. Se observan diferentes formas y grados de protección del empleo estándar y no estándar, así como reglas compensatorias junto a otras destinadas a eliminar el trato desigual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the emergent racialisation of Peruvian migrants as one element conditioning the labour segregation that characterises Peruvian insertion in Chile. We understand racialisation as a process of construction of categories in which both individual and collective actors participate, and whose expression is demonstrated by the differentiation and inequality that affects the racialised group. We tackle the articulation of racial differences among individual actors, both Chilean employers and Peruvian migrant workers, to suggest that the attribution of naturalised characteristics to migrants is related to segregation, mobility, and specific trajectories in the labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the whole, Latin American migration currently represents the highest percentage of migration into the Spanish state. This situation results from a series of factors, combined in both the points of origin and destination, and relating to the economic policies of the emitting and receiving countries within the framework of globalization. However, despite the way in which the phenomenon is portrayed by politicians and the media, this predominance is not due exclusively to the historical and cultural ties between Latin America and Spain, but rather to the implementation of a complex series of legal measures which contribute to the constant renewal of national collectives at the service of the labour markets in search of the desired ‘flexibility’ based on ethnic and gender segmentation of migrant workers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Domestic service is one of the secondary labor markets that have grown in the context of globalization. Its dynamism is linked to the demand for cheap female labor to satisfy needs within the sphere of domestic reproduction. The characterization of the U.S. domestic service labor market in the early 21st century on the basis of survey data shows that (now as in the past) its growth is based mainly on the influx of immigrant labor, nowadays mainly from Latin America. Domestic workers' poverty levels, coupled with their low educational achievement, merely corroborate the fact that the growth of this labor market in developed societies is yet another of the regressive consequences observed in the world of work within the context of globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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