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Rhacel Parreñas

Sociology

#1357

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#1546

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Gender Studies

#44

World Rank

#44

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Rhacel Parreñas's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of the Philippines

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According to Wikipedia, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at University of Southern California. She previously taught at Brown University, the University of California, Davis and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research has been featured in NPR's "The World", Bloomberg News, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, de Volkskrant, and the American Prospect. Parreñas has written five monographs, co-edited three anthologies, and published a number of peer-reviewed articles.

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Rhacel Parreñas's Published Works

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Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work (2001) (1045)
Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes (2005) (803)
Long distance intimacy: class, gender and intergenerational relations between mothers and children in Filipino transnational families (2005) (607)
Mothering from a Distance: Emotions, Gender, and Intergenerational Relations in Filipino Transnational Families (2001) (487)
MIGRANT FILIPINA DOMESTIC WORKERS AND THE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF REPRODUCTIVE LABOR (2000) (482)
The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids (2000) (366)
The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (2008) (202)
Transnational Fathering: Gendered Conflicts, Distant Disciplining and Emotional Gaps (2008) (191)
Transgressing the nation-state: the partial citizenship and "imagined (global) community" of migrant Filipina domestic workers. (2001) (163)
Sequencing and Comparative Analysis of Flagellin Genes fliC, fljB, and flpA from Salmonella (2004) (147)
Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (2011) (145)
Servants of globalization : migration and domestic work (2015) (128)
Intimate labors : cultures, technologies, and the politics of care (2010) (115)
Children in the Global Sex Trade (2006) (96)
Children of Global Migration (2005) (93)
The reproductive labour of migrant workers (2012) (92)
Homeward bound: the circular migration of entertainers between Japan and the Philippines (2010) (75)
Transnational Mothering: A Source of Gender Conflict in the Family (2013) (71)
“White Trash” Meets the “Little Brown Monkeys”: The Taxi Dance Hall as a Site of Interracial and Gender Alliances between White Working Class Women and Filipino Immigrant Men in the 1920s and 30s (1998) (55)
Asian diasporas : new formations, new conceptions (2007) (45)
The Gender Paradox in the Transnational Families of Filipino Migrant Women (2005) (43)
Serial Labor Migration: Precarity and Itinerancy among Filipino and Indonesian Domestic Workers (2018) (41)
Precarity chains: cycles of domestic worker migration from Southeast Asia to the Middle East (2020) (37)
What Is Human Trafficking? A Review Essay (2012) (33)
Sexual Labors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Toward Sex as Work (2010) (29)
Guest Editors’ Introduction Intimate Industries: Restructuring (Im)Material Labor in Asia (2016) (28)
Inserting Feminism in Transnational Migration Studies1 (2009) (23)
The Force of Domesticity (2020) (23)
Soft violence: migrant domestic worker precarity and the management of unfree labour in Singapore (2020) (21)
The Gender Ideological Clash in Globalization: Women, Migration, and the Modernization Building Project of the Philippines (2007) (19)
Essential and Expendable: Migrant Domestic Workers and the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (18)
THE INDENTURED MOBILITY OF MIGRANT WOMEN: HOW GENDERED PROTECTIONIST LAWS LEAD FILIPINA HOSTESSES TO FORCED SEXUAL LABOR (2010) (17)
The Indenture of Migrant Domestic Workers (2017) (15)
Migrant Domestic Workers as ‘One of the Family’ (2014) (15)
The Globalization of Care Work (2008) (14)
Trafficked? Filipino Hostesses in Tokyo's Nightlife Industry (2006) (13)
Multicultural East Asia: An Introduction (2011) (12)
Domestic Workers Refusing Neo-Slavery in the UAE (2016) (11)
Who Cares for the Children and the Elderly? Gender and Transnational Families (2018) (10)
Not Every Family: Selective Reunification in Contemporary US Immigration Laws (2010) (10)
AT THE COST OF WOMEN (2003) (9)
The mobility pathways of migrant domestic workers (2020) (8)
Perpetually Foreign: Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers in Rome (2016) (8)
Discipline and Empower: The State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers (2021) (8)
Human Sacrifices: What Happens When Women Migrate and Leave Families behind? The Case of the Philippines Raises Some Troubling Questions (2002) (8)
The Gendered Racialization of Asian Women as Villainous Temptresses (2021) (7)
The Gender Revolution in the Philippines: Migrant Mothering and Social Transformations (2013) (5)
Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States (2021) (5)
Love’s Labor’s Cost: The family life of migrant domestic workers (2017) (5)
The governance of the Kafala system and the punitive control of migrant domestic workers (2021) (5)
Hostess work: negotiating the morals of money and sex (2009) (5)
Thinking Policy Through Migrant Domestic Workers’ Itineraries (2020) (5)
Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work, Second Edition (2001) (4)
The Precarity of Migrant Domestic Work (2018) (4)
Can I Ever Retire? The Plight of Migrant Filipino Elderly Caregivers in Los Angeles (2014) (4)
Women on the Move: Stalled Gender Revolution in Global Migration (2018) (3)
Mechanisms of migrant exclusion: Temporary labour, precarious noncitizenship, and technologies of detention (2021) (3)
How to Do Ethnography Right (2016) (2)
Introduction: Special issue on technologies of intimate labour (2017) (2)
Book Review: The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965 (2006) (2)
Partial Citizenship and the Ideology of Women’s Domesticity in State Policies on Foreign Domestic Workers (2012) (2)
Benevolent paternalism and migrant women: the case of migrant Filipina entertainers in Japan (2007) (2)
Workers without Families (2015) (2)
Pluralization of Families (2018) (2)
Transnational Mothering and Models of Parenthood (2013) (1)
A Long Way from Home (2002) (1)
Race, Labor, and the State: The Quasi-Citizenship of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers 1 (2004) (1)
Domestic Workers of the World Unite! A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights. By Jennifer N. Fish. New York: New York University Press, 2017. Pp. xi+291. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper). (2018) (1)
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. By Mae M. Ngai. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. ix+377. $35.00. (2005) (1)
Confronting Equality: Gender, Knowledge and Global Change (2013) (1)
Permanent and transitional guest workers: variations of partial citizenship among migrant Filipina domestic workers in the diaspora (2015) (0)
New Directions in Feminist Research Seminar 2013-2014 (2014) (0)
The place of women is still in the home : The migration of filipina domestic workers in globalization (2005) (0)
9 The Gender Revolution in the Philippines (2020) (0)
Intimate Labour and Social Justice: Engaging with the Work of Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (Dispatch) (2016) (0)
Breaking the Code (2008) (0)
Kultury flirtu. Filipińskie hostessy w Tokio (2015) (0)
Gender, Sexuality, and Migration (2019) (0)
Guest Editors' Introduction: Children and Youth in Asian Migration (2022) (0)
Chapter 10. Breaking the Code: Women, Labor Migration, and the 1987 Family Code of the Republic of the Philippines (2017) (0)
Book Review: Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (2002) (0)
Caring for the “Holy Land”: Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel Claudia Liebelt. New York: Berghahn, 2011. 252 pp. (2013) (0)
Intimate Labors, Introduction (2020) (0)
Caring for Strangers. Filipino medical Workers in Asia , written by Megha Amrith (2017) (0)
9 Negotiating Indenture: Migrant Domestic Work and Temporary Labor Migration in Singapore (2021) (0)
Book Review: Domestic Economies: Women, Work and the American Dream in Los Angeles (2019) (0)
Not one of the family: : The tight spaces of migrant domestic workers (2015) (0)
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai:Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2005) (0)

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