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In Brazil's raging pandemic, domestic workers fear for their lives – and their jobs

  • Written by Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira, Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College
imageLadijane Sofia da Concecão, one of millions of unemployed housekeepers in Brazil, accepts a food donation from a friend in São Paulo, May 7, 2020. Alexandre Schneider/Getty Images

Brazil has emerged as one of the worst-hit countries in the coronavirus crisis, with hundreds of thousands of cases affecting people from all backgrounds....

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