Parrenas Response

After reading Parrenas essay we see that is very familiar with Glenn. She refers to her essay several times especially on the issue of 'racial division of reproductive labor.' (Parrenas 561) This essay is very interesting because she takes Ehrenriech's, Kessler-Harris's and Glenn's essays beyond American territory and relates it to the world. She refers this to as globalization and how this concept "has extended the politics of reproductive labor into an international level." (Parrenas 561) It seems she agrees with Glenn in many ways such as how priveleged women use their money to get themselves out of domestic work by hiring women, specifically "low-paid women of color," (Parrenas 562) so they can focus on other things. This raises the question who takes care of the domestic wrkers family and Parrenas explains that is usually family members who will reach out and support their own. Parrenas refers to Sakia Sassen how globalization has effected this migration of women worldwide. Sassen has said that "globalization has sparked the feminization of migrant labor." (563) The example presented are these Filopina domestic workers. As different nations begin to industrialize and increae their economy they need a big labor force for a cheap price. The global economy has prospered by these women but Parrenas wanrs us that these studies have to be loked carefully because they are "skewed." (564) She says it depends where work is available and what type of job opportunities. Filipino men tend to work in the middle east because they have opportunites in contrustion and tough physical jobs related to that. On the other hand Filipina workers migrate to Asia and Europe where there are low-wage domestic job voids; This extends to the United Sates also for inmigrant women are also rtaking advatage of the domestic jobs here. A big down side is the 'rearing children' (572) concpet caused by this movement across the world. These Filip[ina women and other mothers of different ethnicity sacrifice their niche because of the time they have to put into their jobs. Speaking from experience (my mom being a doemstic house worker herself) it does at times affect what goes on at home. Mostly my younger brothers who need more of a mother figure than me. My twin brother and I going to college has kept uis busy and occupied but for my brothers back home i can see it in their faces when i go back home that it does cause some problems. But playing sports and being involved with other activities is the solution because it fills in that void that my mom sometimes cannot satisfy at times.