Özet:

This paper presents a labour-capital conflict oriented critical analysis of the oppression, violence and exploitation that the ‘female migrant labour’ suffers as a reflection of the fact that ‘the capitalist system exploits the most disadvantaged the most’, studying particulary the circumstances of Turkey. First, the study gives an extensive study of the relevant literature and, through a discussion of the books, articles and various reports, it analyses the said labourcapital conflict and exploitation especially in relation to the exploitation of the female migrant labour, drawing also attention to the gradually increasing number of migrants. In the capitalist system, the capital can control the rise in the wages and thus can keep the cost of labour at a minimum level by dividing labour, establishing hierarchical relations among different forms of labour and dividing the working class. The paper discusses, within the context of the particular circumstances in Turkey, how the migrant labour is controlled and exploited through neo-liberal migration politicies, how the oppression on and exploitation of labour increase as paralel to the increase in the disadvantages, how this oppression and exploitation reach the highest level within the context of the ‘female migrant labour’, which is the most disadvantaged labour after that of child labour. Also, the paper underlines the fact that although workers are being categorized as migrant, female and male workers and treated accordingly, it is only the capitalist system itself which is responsible for and takes advantage of the division of and competition among the male-female as well as native-migrant labour. Finally, the paper concludes that it is not possible for the male labour or for the female migrants’ labour to be rescued from being put into competition with one another and be thus exploited and for them to be liberated unless they are rescued from the oppresive control of capitalism.

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