Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work

Servants of Globalization places Filipino domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles within global capitalism and migration law. Parreñas does not treat their labor as private sacrifice alone; she analyzes how care, motherhood, remittances, citizenship, and family intimacy are reorganized across borders.

For FemRes, the book pairs well with Parreñas’s article already in the collection. The article gives the conceptual entry point, while the book shows how sustained ethnography exposes the global labor market’s rewriting of intimate family life.