Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States AUTH-1609049 your coworker

your coworker

Fabio Montale

In this eclectic collection of essays

aided by his usual mix of humor and street smarts

Nothing about starving and nothing about Auschwitz was ever funny

Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States AUTH-1609049 your coworkerA stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system. In the United Arab Emirates, there is an employment sponsorship system known as the kafala. Migrant domestic workers within it must solely work for their employer, secure their approval to leave the country, and obtain their consent to terminate a job. In Unfree, Rhacel Salazar Parreas examines the labor of