Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

Illegal.

Unamerican.

Disposable.

In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of a drain.

Grace Chang' s vital account of immigrant women—who work as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers—proves just the opposite: the women who perform our least desirable jobs are the most crucial to our economy and society.