> several stories about rich Indian professionals in the NYC area who
> advertise in India for maids, promising all sorts of goodies; when the
> women arrive here, their passports are taken and they're more or less
> unable to leave their employers' houses. There are frequent stories about
> farm workers, originally from Mexico and Central America, kept in virtual
> slavery; there's a lot of tut-tutting in the press when the stories are
> published, then things go back to exploitation as usual. Peter Kwong has
> written a lot about indentured servitude among Chinese workers in New York
> City.
I think Sonia Shah has written about the Indian and Bangladeshi women in some (resoanbly recent?) issues of Z.
--prashanth