Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
Professor of Asian American Studies and Graduate Group of Sociology

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (1998). She teaches courses on social theory, youth, diasporic communities, gender, and contemporary issues in the community. Her research focuses on women, migration, and globalization with an empirical emphasis on the Philippines. She frequently lectures on the subject of transnational families and the globalization of service work throughout the country as well as in Asia and Europe. Her research on migrant Filipina domestic workers has been featured in the Wall Street Journal , American Prospect , and produced into an award-winning documentary The Chain of Love by VPRO-TV in the Netherlands. She is the author of Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work (2001), Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes (2005), and Engendering Globalization: Essays on Women, Migration and the Philippines (In Press), and the co-editor of Asian Diasporas (2007). She is currently working on two full length manuscripts, Trafficked (Under contract with Harvard University Press) and Children of Immigrants (Co author. Under contract with Polity Press, UK). For more information on Professor Parreñas please look at her CV.

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3115 Hart Hall