The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers by Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar

The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers

"Kaya mo ba?" Can you take it? An instructor asks this of a group of migrant workers...
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Author: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
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Language: English
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The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers by Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar

The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers

$24.00

The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers

$24.00
Author: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

"Kaya mo ba?" Can you take it? An instructor asks this of a group of migrant workers in the Philippines, as they prepare for domestic work in wealthier countries. Can you take the grueling work? "Kaya," the women say. "We can."

The phrase "human trafficking" often conjures nightmarish images of sexual exploitation, but Rhacel Salazar Parreñas reveals that the vast majority of trafficking victims are domestic workers who suffer abuse not at the hands of shadowy crime lords but rather "ordinary" family employers.

Drawing on twenty years of groundbreaking research across three continents, Parreñas exposes the grim realities faced by migrant workers ensnared in forced labor due to poverty and debt bondage. She uncovers how entrenched social and legal norms, coupled with a patronizing "employer savior complex," foster a troubling sense of ownership among employers over "their" domestic workers.

Through powerful firsthand accounts--including harrowing stories of workers living in hot, windowless rooms, experiencing food deprivation, having their makeup, jewelry, and phones confiscated, and having their wages stolen--Parreñas illustrates the migrants' desperation, and the power dynamics that lead to a global network of exploitation. Parreñas's urgent narrative challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths about everyday household arrangements and calls for justice and fair treatment for all workers.



Author: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.90w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781324020301


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/21/2025
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2025

About the Author
Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar: - Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is the Doris Stevens Professor in Women's Studies and professor of sociology and gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University. The award-winning author of three previous books on labor, exploitation, and human trafficking, she lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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