Part I. The context -- Key concepts in stepwise international labor migration -- Origin stories -- Global but uneven : the market for migrant domestic workers -- Part II. The actors -- Stepwise journeys, compared, and contrasted -- The world according to migrant domestic workers -- Inside the...

A bounded global market -- Disdained aliens, stratified others -- Jealous madams and anxious mothers -- Crossing borders and gender divides -- Cinderella with a mobile phone -- Eat, drink, masters and servants