Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by dint of Grace Chang Foreword by Mimi Abramovitz southern End Press.

Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by dint of Grace Chang Foreword by Mimi Abramovitz southern End Press. 235 pages. $1800

Disposable Domestics displays us how the feminization of indigence is being globalized. Poor women of the Third World don't immigrate voluntarily, Chang explains, further from necessity. They follow the stream of resources out of their countries to the First World, where they become exploitable commodities. Denied citizen and worker rights, they are disposed of when no longer needed

The exploitation of immigrant women today run afters past patterns of discrimination against male immigrants, especially the Chinese and the "Bracero" farm workers, Chang argues. This exploitation threatens immigrant societies, she says. And she points not at home a cruel irony: Immigrant women who work as domestics are denied adequate resources to rear their have a title to families, even as they care for their employers' families.

Reading this part should inspire feminists to ask: to what end are these women paid with equal reason little for such important work, and must the liberation of white middle and upper class women proceed at the expense of poor, immigrant women of color?

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