Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work » (1st Edition)

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Women’s and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

A poignant, often troubling, study of Filipina domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the mothering and caretaking work of the global economy in countries throughout the world.

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Parre<~n>nas (women's and Asian American studies, U. Wisconsin, Madison) gathered interviews from male and mostly female domestic workers in Rome, Italy and Los Angeles, California to create the data base for this study, which is a revision of her 1998 PhD dissertation in ethnic studies from the U. of California, Berkeley. She outlines the theory used in her work<-->including poststructuralism; then offers her analysis of the social process of the outflow of migration; its dislocation of partial citizenship; the lives of migrant Filipina domestic workers and their reasons for migrating; and the formation and maintenance of transnational families in global restructuring. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)