Migrant domestic workers are employed on temporary work permits, paid low wages, work long hours, and many must live in the homes of their employers which can, in some cases, lead to forms of exploitation and abuse. Often only granted one day off a week, when migrant domestic workers occupy public space en masse on their rest day, usually Sundays, their visible presence is often seen as nuisance by local residents. They are marginalized as transient subjects despite living for many years in the cities in which they labour.