...domestic labor around the world. With the rapid and successful economic growth in the newly industrializing countries (NICs) of East Asia, the rising middle and upper classes have increasingly recruited hired help from Southeast Asia. In Taiwan, many of the foreign household workers come from the Philippines and Indonesia.

Pei-Chia Lan's ethnographic study, Global Cinderellas, illuminates the boundaries of class, ethnicity, gender, and citizenship encountered by Filipina and Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Taiwan. The author demonstrates, through vivid ethnographic accounts, how the relationship between migrant domestic workers and their Taiwanese employers are mediated by strict immigration policies, economic disparities, ethnicity, and gender. To understand the relationship between...

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