The construction of skills -- Structural advantages in the job market -- Performing stereotypical Westernness -- The heteronormativity of "guest families" -- Relations with domestic employees -- Hedonistic lifestyles -- Western privilege and white privilege.

"A stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system. In the United Arab Emirates, there is an employment sponsorship system known as the kafala. Migrant domestic workers within it must solely work for...

We estimate the individual returns to temporary migration programs using a randomized experiment with several thousand job seekers in India applying to guest worker jobs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Working with construction companies and the UAE Ministry of Labor, we randomized job offers...