In Handmaids of globalization (Icària, 2024), Gabriela Poblet, PhD in social and cultural anthropology, director of Europe Without Walls and currently a professor at the University of Valladolid, examines domestic service in Spain and Catalonia through interviews with women who work as live-in caregivers for the elderly or children. Today, they are primarily women from Latin America, many awaiting residency permits, who have migrated alone and are facing challenges. It is very difficult to escape abusive situations and claim rightsWith the complaints of sexual assault, harassment, and workplace abuse from two former employees of Julio Iglesias' mansionsThe Poblet experience serves to highlight the conditions in which these women work.