Earlier today, I read a terribly interesting piece in The Washington Monthly on women from third world countries like India who leave their homes, children and countries to live elsewhere and care for children of more affluent people in richer countries.

"On Sunday mornings, the parks and plazas of central Hong Kong teem with women. They are Filipinas mainly, but Indians, Thais, Sri Lankans, and others as well--women from the Third World who come to the First to scrub floors, care for children, and generally do work that affluent households no longer have the time or inclination to do. They sit on benches and blankets, chat, eat, entrust parcels to friends going home for visits--parcels the friends will carry in big, plastic zipper bags they call Manila Vuittons......" Click here for the full story