‘Berg Hosts Panel On Feminization Of Migrant Labor
On April 6, anthropology professor Denise Brennan and activist and author Joy Zarembka will participate in a panel discussion, “The Feminization of Migrant Labor in a Global Economy,” at 7:30 p.m. in the Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Thursday, March 30, 2006 01:59 PM
Brennan and Zarembka appear as a part of the Fifth Annual Danielle Dionne Guerin Lecture in Women's Studies and Keynote Address for The Undergraduate Conference on Social Research/Social Justice, and as a part of the Center for Ethics series, The Ethics and Politics of Identity. The panel is free and open to the public.
Brennan is an assistant professor of anthropology at Georgetown University. She has written and researched on topics such as human trafficking, the global sex trade, migration, women's labor, and Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the author of What’s Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Duke University Press 2004). Currently she is writing a book on the recovery and resettlement process of trafficked persons, tentatively titled Life After Slavery: Creating Home/Returning Home for which she was awarded an American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct field research in 2003-2004. Professor Brennan teaches courses on migration, gender, field research and cultural anthropology.
Zarembka isthe daughter of a domestic worker from Kenya, director of the Break the Chain Campaign (http://www.ips-dc.org/campaign/), and author of The Pigment of Your Imagination: Mixed Race Families in Britain, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Jamaica, which explores different configurations of "race in those countries. She also has a chapter in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy: " America's Dirty Work: Migrant Maids and Modern-Day Slavery."
The Ethics and Politics of Identity is a year long series of programs, sponsored by the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics , about the ethical challenges that surround the changing categories of social, national, and global identities.
For more information on the series, or to view the schedule of events, please visit: www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/ethics.
