Ochanomizu University
She has received research funding from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and National Science Foundation. She was given the honors of the Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor from Northwestern University in 2010 and the Distinguished Research Professor of Gender Studies from Ochanomizu University for the 2005-2006 academic year. For "Illicit Flirtations", she received the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements Section. In 2003, Parreñas received an honorable mention in the Social Science Book Prize Category from the Association for Asian American Studies for "Servants of Globalization". In 2019, Parrenas received the Jessie Bernard Award.