humanprovince, ("politics, language and culture. the levant and central africa. political scientist by training, but please don't hold that against me.") adds: 

"wow this is gross"

1/ On their first day of work abroad, hundreds of Filipino domestic workers presented their new employer in Saudi Arabia and Hong Honk with a small pack of dried mango and a photo of their family. Guess what happened next.

A🧵on our new working paper: https://t.co/dCWzl6PNWy pic.twitter.com/hVKtZpsXpw

— Toman Barsbai (@TomanBarsbai) December 22, 2022

Abstract

International migrant workers are vulnerable to abuses by their employers. We implemented a randomized controlled trial of an intervention to reduce mistreatment of Filipino women working as domestic workers (DWs) by their household employ- ers in Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. The intervention – encouraging DWs to show their employers a photo of their family while providing a small gift when starting employment – caused DWs to experience less mistreatment, have higher satisfaction with the employer, and be more likely to stay with the employer. DWs’ families in the Philippines also come to view international labor migration more positively, while they generally remain unaware of the intervention. An online experiment with potential employers in Hong Kong and the Middle East suggests that a mechanism behind the treatment effect is a reduction in the employer’s perceived social distance from the employee. A simple intervention can thus help to protect migrant workers without requiring public policy changes in the destination country.

Training the servants so their masters are less likely to beat them.

It's all there: class, race, colonialism. I could just post the names and affiliations like I did the last time.