https://phys.org/news/2019-01-human-trafficking-problem-middle-east.html

Parrenas is the author of Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (Stanford University Press, 2011), which explores the working conditions of what in the mid-2000s was the largest group of human trafficking victims—Filipino migrant hostesses in Japan.

She interviewed Rhoda—whose last name is omitted to protect her identity —for her current research on Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers in the UAE. It is one of 165 in-depth interviews Parrenas has completed on workers' experience of what she prefers to term "unfree labor," but which is often described by those within the trafficking community as modern-day slavery.