In 1992, Heidi Tinsman underlined the tendency in the scientific literature to underestimate the impact of the working-class gender regime on the structuring of the “space of domesticity” (Wulff, 2012) in Latin America, a tendency which has only marginally changed since. Through the qualitative study of the life journeys of Bolivian and Peruvian domestic workers who entered domestic service when they were minors, this article proposes to emphasize the normative affinities between dominated and dominant families in terms of gender norms, by showing that the synergy between the two helps seal the fate of a considerable proportion of young migrant girls from rural areas or the urban periphery who are predisposed to domesticity by poverty, which itself is shaped by structural racism.