This pathbreaking study illustrates how boundaries---of race, class, gender, and citizenship---are formed in the lives of migrant domestic workers. Pei Chia Lan's use of boundary-making as the lens through which to analyze the integration of migrant domestic workers is a very important contribution to the burgeoning field of the feminization of migration. This is a brilliant book.--Rhacel Salazar Parreas, author of Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes " We might imagine that the more contact we have with others across the globe the closer our social bonds. But as Pei-Chia Lan so ably shows we would be sadly wrong about that. In some ways the madams of Taiwan are "close" to their maids from the Phillipines but in other ways they are very distant from them. Indeed, in some cases the closer we are, the most distant. Just how this works out is the subject of this clearly written, trenchantly argued, hugely important, must read book.

" Arlie Hochschild, co-editor of Global Woman, Nannies Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy "This is a most unusual academic book. Well argued, meticulously researched and theoretically literate, it is also extremely readable and written with a profound humanity. It offers a detailed picture of the daily lives of foreign domestic workers in Taiwan, their reasons for migrating, their relationships with their employers and their struggles to make their positions endurable."--CHina Quarterly, March 2007 "Pei-Chia Lan's ethnographic study, Global Cinderellas illuminates the boundaries of class, ethnicity, gender, and citizenship encountered by Filipina and Indonesian migrant domestic workers inTaiwan. Global Cinderellas is well-written. The vivid descriptions, excellent literary style, personal voice, and individual quotations in the narratives mak the reader feel almost like a witness to the ethnographic study. Students of women's studies, Asian studies, sociology, and international labor migration will find this book to be illuminating." Okiri A.

Uneke, Ph.D., Winston-Salem State University.