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“Black/Third World women internationally, the majority of the majority of the world’s people, carry the major burden of the world’s work and get the least wealth in return,” they described.49 Black women in the US were kidnapped from their children and violently enslaved in homes, where they were forced to cook, clean, and care for and act as wet nurses for white children."

"Raj Patel estimates that the value of women’s unpaid work constitutes more than half the world’s entire labor output.45 In 2020, the New York Times pegged the value of women’s unpaid labor around the world at an overwhelming $10.9 trillion.46 This naturalization of reproductive work as unpaid, gendered work lays the foundation for underpaid domestic work in the wage economy"

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Even though migrant workers—precarious and deportable—are some of the most vulnerable during times of economic crisis, they are the most likely to be scapegoated for “stealing” jobs and resources. Migrant workers are discursively and physically attacked for “causing unemployment” and become the targets of rising xenophobia. "