Rhacel salazar parrenas biography of michael

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. She previously taught at University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of California, Davis, and Brown University.

Her areas of research include labor, gender, international migration and human trafficking, the family and economic sociology.

She is an ethnographer who has conducted field work in Denmark, Italy, Japan, Philippines, Singapore and United Arab Emirates.

Her research examines the experiences of migrant workers from the Philippines with a particular focus in the last decade on &#;hard to reach populations.&#; While her earlier works examined the constitution of gender in women&#;s migration and transnational families, her last two projects have sought to document and examine the experiences of migrant workers identified by the U.S.

Department of State as victims of human trafficking. Her current project focuses on the &#;unfree labor&#; of migrant domesti