The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers (A Norton Short) (eBook)

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Autor)

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2025
176 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
9781324020318 (ISBN)

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Award-winning sociologist Rhacel Salazar Parreas explains the warped psychology and perfectly legal practices that allow modern-day slavery to persist.Christine L. Williams, author of Gaslighted and former president of the American Sociological AssociationA renowned sociologist examines the pernicious societal forces that lead employers to exploit vulnerable domestic workers.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 Parreas 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, Parreas 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 accountsincluding harrowing stories of workers living in hot, windowless rooms, experiencing food deprivation, having their makeup, jewelry, and phones confiscated, and having their wages stolenParreas illustrates the migrants desperation, and the power dynamics that lead to a global network of exploitation. Parreass urgent narrative challenges readers to confront uncomfortable truths about everyday household arrangements and calls for justice and fair treatment for all workers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2025
• Reihe/Serie: A Norton Short
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abuse • Au Pairs • cooks • debt bonding • Domestic Labor • Exploitation • Forced Labor • gardeners • Housekeepers • Human Trafficking • Migrant Workers • nannies • Poverty • savior complex • Slavery • workplace standards
• ISBN-13: 9781324020318 / 9781324020318