Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Department of Sociology 851 Downey Way/HSH 314 Los Angeles, CA 90089 (213) 740-3533 · [email protected]
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(10/2018) Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Department of Sociology 851 Downey Way/HSH 314 Los Angeles, CA 90089 (213) 740-3533 · [email protected] CURRENT POSITION Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California (2010- ) Book Series Co-Editor, Globalization in Everyday Life, Stanford University Press PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD 2012-2015 Department Chair, University of Southern California (Sociology) 2008-2010 Professor, Brown University (American Civilization and Sociology) 2003-2008 Professor, University of California, Davis (Asian American Studies and Graduate Group of Sociology; Associate Professor 2003-2007) 2000-2003 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies) 1998-2000 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (UCLA, Anthropology) INVITED VISITING APPOINTMENTS Spring 2017 Visiting Professor/Fulbright Research Chair, McMaster University (Center for the Study of Globalization and the Human Condition), Hamilton, ON March 2016 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii, West Oahu May 2010 Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor of Gender Studies, Northwestern University May 2009 Visiting Research Professor, University of South Australia (Center for Work and Family), Adelaide, Australia 2005-2006 Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Ochanomizu University, (Institute for Gender Studies), Tokyo, Japan EDUCATION 1998 U.C. Berkeley, Ph. D. Comparative Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1994 U.C. Berkeley, M.A. Comparative Ethnic Studies 1992 U.C. Berkeley, B.A. Peace and Conflict Studies 2/Parreñas AREAS OF RESEARCH Gender, Labor, International Migration, Transnationalism and Globalization, Economy Sociology, Family EXTERNAL GRANTS 2015-2020 The Academy of Korean Studies, “Rethinking Korea’s Soft Power and Hard Power: On the Globalization of East Asia in the Social Sciences and Humanities,” The Academy of Korean Studies, P.I. Rhacel Parreñas, Co-PI David Kang, Co-PI Youngmin Choe, Co- PI Chris Hanscom, Co-PI Suk-Young Kim, Co-PI Akira Lippit ($1,267,485) 2015-2016 Korea Foundation, Graduate Award for PhD Student Carolyn Choi ($20,000) 2014-2017 “Comparative Analysis of Labor Relations and Legal Status in the United Arab Emirates and Singapore,” National Science Foundation, SES-1346750 ($200,000) PI: Rhacel Parreñas, Senior Consultant: Rachel Silvey. 2013-2018 “Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: Comparative Perspectives,” (File No: 895-2012-1021), Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada (C$2,840,000), PI: Ito Peng (University of Toronto), Co-PI: Rachel Silvey (University of Toronto); Southeast Asia Consultants: Rhacel Parreñas and Daniele Belanger (University of Western Ontario). (Southeast Asia Team Portion: C$160,000) 2012-2013 Grant for Intimate Industries Workshop, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (C$14,000) Co-PIs: Rachel Silvey (University of Toronto) and Rhacel Parreñas. EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS Fall 2017 Invited Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Host: Rikkyo University, Tokyo) Spring 2017 Fulbright Research Chair, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (Stipend: $25,000) 2015-2017 Invited Member as Lead Author on “Diasporic Families,” International Panel on Social Progress 2015-2016 Deutsche Bank Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science (Stipend: $60,000) 3/Parreñas Fall 2015 Fulbright Research Chair, Munk Institute, University of Toronto (Declined) 2010-2011 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science (Stipend: $65,000; Declined) 2010-2011 Invited Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (Stipend: $60,000) Spring 2004 Rockefeller Fellow, Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific, University of Hawaii, Manoa ($15,000) Fall 2002 Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Madison ($30,000) 2002-2003 Australian National University Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies (declined) 2001-2002 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship ($40,000) 1998-2000 U.C. President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles ($70,000) 1999 Babilonia Wilner Foundation, Scholar in Residence Program, Berkeley, California ($24,000) 1994-1997 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship CURRENT PROJECT The Unfree Labor of Migrant Domestic Workers in Dubai and Singapore In Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, migrant domestic workers are unfree workers whose legal status is inflexibly contingent on their continuous and sole employment in one household. In both countries, they cannot quit their job without the permission of their employer. This study examines their experience of unfree labor and identifies and analyzes how various stakeholders – states, recruitment agencies, non- governmental advocates, employers and domestic workers – recognize and accordingly attend to their state of unfreedom. This is an ongoing study but we intend to write a book solely on Dubai while producing a series of articles using the data from Singapore. My collaborator Rachel Silvey (Geography, Toronto) and I have gathered 165 in-depth interviews with Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers in Dubai and 100 in Singapore; 65 in-depth interviews with employers in Dubai and Singapore; 100 hours of participant observation in pre-departure orientation seminars in Manila; 50 hours of participant-observation in a recruitment agency in Singapore; 20 interviews with recruitment agency staff; a survey of 200 return migrants in the Philippines; a survey of 4/Parreñas 100 Middle East bound prospective migrants in Manila; and interviews with government officials in Dubai, Singapore, and Manila. PUBLICATIONS Monographs 2015 Parreñas, Rhacel. Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work, 2nd Edition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. • Translated into Chinese by Yunnan University Press (2018). 2011 Parreñas, Rhacel. Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. • Public Radio International's The World, "Filipino Workers in Japan: Economic Migrants or Victims of State Trafficking?" (October 31, 2011) o http://www.theworld.org/2011/10/filipino-workers-in-japan-economic-migrants-or- victims-of-sex-trafficking/ • Public Radio International's The World, "U.S. State Department Speaks Out on Sex Trafficking in Japan," (November 4, 2011) o http://www.theworld.org/2011/11/us-state-dept-speaks-out-on-sex-trafficking-in-japan/ • Nina Ayoub, "Scholar's View Rile State Department," The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 10, 2011) o http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/scholars-views-rile-state-department/29694 • The Six Point Inspection, Zocalo Public Square (November 8, 2011) o http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/08/the-doors-keynes-hayek-and- illicit-migrations/read/the-six-point-inspection/ • 2012 Distinguished Book Award in American Sociological Association’s Section on Labor and Labor Movements • Chapter 3 translated to Polish. 2008 Parreñas, Rhacel. The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization. New York: NYU Press. 2005 Parreñas, Rhacel. Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. • Reprinted in the Philippines by: Ateneo University Press. 2001 Parreñas, Rhacel. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. • Honorable Mention, 2002 Association for Asian American Studies Social Sciences Book Award. • Reprinted in the Philippines by: Ateneo University Press. • Translated into Korean by Alterity Press (2009). Edited Books 2014 Hoang, Kimberly and Rhacel Parreñas, eds. Human Trafficking Reconsidered: Migration and Forced Labor, New York: Idebate Press of the International Debate Education Association (Commissioned by the Open Society Institute). 2010 Boris, Eileen and Rhacel Parreñas, eds. Intimate Labors: Technologies, Cultures and the Politics of Care. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press). 2007 Parreñas, Rhacel and Lok Siu, eds. Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 5/Parreñas • 2008 Asian American Studies Association Social Sciences Book Award 1997 Editorial Board Member for: Kim, Elaine H., and Lilia V. Villanueva, eds. Making More Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and about Asian American Women. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. Edited Journals (Special Issues) 2017 Parreñas, Rhacel, Sexualities 20(4), Special Issue on Technologies of Intimate Labor (June). 2016 Parreñas, Rhacel, Hung Thai, and Rachel Silvey, positions: asia critique 24(1), Special Issue on Intimate Industries in Asia. February. 2011 Parreñas, Rhacel, Hyuk Rae-Kim and Joon Kim, eds. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Special Issue on Multicultural East Asia. December. 2010 Boris, Eileen, Stefanie Gilmore, and Rhacel Parreñas, eds. Sexualities Journal, Special Issue on Sexual Labors. April. Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (*Indicates PhD Student) Forthcoming Silvey, Rachel and Rhacel Parreñas, “Precarity Chains: The Cycle of Domestic Worker Migration from Southeast Asia to the Middle East,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Accepted October 2018. 2018 Parreñas, Rhacel, Rachel Silvey, Maria Hwang and Carolyn Choi*, “Serial Labor Migration: Precarity and Itinerancy among Filipino and Indonesian Domestic