Black Girls demonstrates the relevance of colonial legacies in the stories of the Afro-Surinamese and the Eritrean women who, in the 1960s and 70s, migrated to the Netherlands and Italy, respectively, and became domestic workers there.

Sabrina Marchetti, Ph.D (2010), Utrecht University, is currently Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She works on issues of gender, migration and labour.