Rhacel Salazar Parrenas (born February 13, 1971) is Professor of Sociology at USC

University of Southern California

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. Prior to working at USC

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, she taught at Brown University

Brown University

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, the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

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 and the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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.

Career

Parrenas works on issues such as gender, migration, and globalization, particularly the international division of reproductive labor, also known as the care chain. Her work has inspired books and studies, including reports released by the United Nations. The idea of the care chain also inspired the production of a documentary The Care Chain by VPRO-TV in the Netherlands.

Notable lectures available online include a public discussion on the family with other renowned social scientists held at CUNY Graduate School and a public lecture on transnational mothers that was aired on WBUR

WBUR

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, Boston's NPR Station on October 11, 2009 and January 3, 2010.

Further reading

• Making More Waves (1997, co-editor with Asian Women United of California). ISBN 0-807-05913-7

Interviews

• 2008 “In transnational households traditional notions of mothering and fathering are reinforced”, Interview with Rhacel Parreñas on transnational families and the gendered division of reproductive labour. In: genderstudies 13 (2008). P. 6‐7.
• 2007 “Interview with Rhacel Salazar Parreñas,’ by E. Legarski. Social Thought and Research 28: 57‐66.

External links

• Rhacel Parrenas Brown University Professor, American Civilization and Sociology
• New York Times 2005 article by Nina Bernstein
• UN-instraw
• Icarusfilms.com Chain
• BUworldofideas.org The Gender Revolution
• Rhacel Salazar Parrenas Fora.tv