Servants of Globalization Migration and Domestic Work, Second Edition [Hardcover]

Servants of Globalizationoffers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of the global economy. Since its initial publication, the book has informed countless students and scholars and set the research agenda on labor migration and transnational families.

With this second edition, Rhacel Salazar Parre?as returns to Rome and Los Angeles to consider how the migrant communities have changed. Children have now joined their parents. Male domestic workers are present in significantly greater numbers. And, perhaps most troubling, the population has aged, presenting new challenges for the increasingly elderly domestic workers. New chapters discuss these three increasingly important constituencies. The entire book has been revised and updated, and a new introduction offers a global, comparative overview of the citizenship status of migrant domestic workers.Servants of Globalizationremains the defining work on the international division of reproductive labor.

Fully revised and expanded,Servants of Globalizationremains the defining work on the international division of reproductive labor. With rich analysis, absorbing material, and updated research, this new edition ofServants of Globalizationoffers readers new insight on the experiences of children reunifying with their mothers abroad, men working in a female segregated occupation, and the plight of aging care workers. Rhacel Parrenas's contributions continue to resonate with scholars and activists and inform our 'care crisis' and immigration debates. Rhacel Salazar Parre?as is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author ofIllicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo(Stanford, 2011) andChildren of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes(Stanford, 2005). Rhacel Parre?as extracts powerful theorizalc*