Interview with Rhacel Salazar Parreñas the Doris Stevens Professor in Women’s Studies and Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University

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Student Project Manager Ian Chavez ’28 interviews Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, a professor in women’s studies and professor of sociology and gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University. They discuss the migrant labor system of kafala in the Middle East. The interview explores the economic, political, and social factors that perpetuate this system, and explore an alternative viewpoint of the kafala system proposed by Professor Parreñas’s book: Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States