My Body Was the Contract: What Sponsorship Really Costs Migrant Workers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781066627608)

This is not a story of misfortune.

This is a record.

In My Body Was the Contract, Josy K. delivers a powerful and unflinching account of what happens when labour systems rely on silence, compliance, and the quiet endurance of migrant workers.

She arrived through the correct doors, legally sponsored, qualified, and ready to work. She believed that following the rules would lead to safety. Instead, she entered a system where permission became control, where labour was taken without protection, and where injury was met not with accountability, but with erasure.

What begins as a journey of migration and hope slowly reveals something far more disturbing.

A workplace where safety is promised but not provided

A body pushed beyond its limits without proper support

An injury dismissed, delayed, and later denied

A system that reshapes the truth to protect itself

When her spine is irreversibly damaged while carrying out essential care work, the consequences reach far beyond physical pain. They reshape her family, her identity, and her future.

This is more than a memoir.

It is evidence.

Evidence that legality does not guarantee justice.

Evidence that compliance does not ensure protection.

Evidence that migrant labour is often sustained by vulnerability rather than fairness.

Written with clarity, honesty, and emotional depth, this book gives voice to a reality many live, but few are able to name.

For readers of social justice, labour rights, and migration, My Body Was the Contract is not just a story to be read.

It is a truth that stays with you.