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A compelling tale, through interviews, of how the global economy has forced people to leave their home countries—Maricel is one of thousands of women encouraged by the Philippine government to work abroad as a domestic worker in order to pay its international debt. Free trade destroyed Jessy and Jaime's family business in Bolivia. Despite their engineering degrees, they have worked as janitors in the US In order to reunite with their parents, their children had to brave a border crossing alone. In Haiti, Luckner worked for 14 cents an hour at a US-owned baseball factory, which moved to China in search of cheaper labor costs.
"A painful yet powerful and poetic human portrait." —Ronald Takaki
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