Tuesday 20 October 2026 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Judge Business School, W4.05
About
Speaker: Professor Rhacel Parreñas, Princeton University
Abstract: This paper examines how origin states govern and protect their citizens beyond territorial jurisdiction. Drawing on six months of participant observation at the Philippine Department of Migrant Workers and its satellite offices in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, it introduces two concepts: extraterritorial protection, which refers to the laws, policies, institutions, and practices through which a migrant-origin state governs and seeks to protect its citizens outside its own territory, and political embeddedness, which captures the degree, depth, and type of engagement through which one state acts within the jurisdiction of another.
Speaker bio: Rhacel Parreñas is Doris Stevens Professor in Women’s Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is a scholar of gender, migration, labour, and economic sociology. She has completed four ethnographic studies including Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States, which was recognized with the 2023 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award by the American Sociological Association. Her other books include Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work; Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes; and Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo. In 2019, she received the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association, which is the discipline’s highest award given to a gender scholar. For her commitment to transformative scholarship, she received the 2018 Feminist Activist Award from the ASA Sex and Gender Section. Her mentorship of junior scholars was recognized in 2020 with a Mentoring Award from Sociologists for Women in Society.
All are welcome. Please email Rachel Wagstaff (r.wagstaff@jbs.cam.ac.uk) to register your attendance. A zoom link is available for those registering.