An Analysis of Servants of Globalization

In her book Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work, Rhacel Parrenas examines the role that Filipina domestic workers have played in our increasingly globalized economy. Parrenas focuses her study on the experiences of Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, expecting that the women studied would have significant differences in their experiences given the differences between the two cities. However, Parrenas concluded that, for the most part, the experiences of Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles were strikingly similar. Both shared "the experience of quasi-citizenship," which was marked by segregation and a number of other challenges (Parrenas, 2001, p. 244). Both experienced the pain o

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