Scripts of Servitude : Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work

This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of women from the Philippines to Singapore, the book unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that...
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Gespeichert in:
Autor*in:

Lorente, Beatriz P. [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Multilingual Matters ; 2017

©2017

Rechteinformationen:

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Schlagwörter:

Women foreign workers, Language, Singapore

Foreign workers, Filipino, Singapore

English language, Social aspects, Singapore

Women household employees, Singapore

Language and languages, Economic aspects, Philippines

English language.

Foreign workers, Filipino.

Women foreign workers.

Women household employees.

domestic work.

English.

labour migration.

Language.

migration.

multilingualism.

transnationalism.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource

Beschreibung:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

Reihe:

Critical Language and Literacy Studies

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ISBN:

978-1-78309-900-9

DOI / URN:

10.21832/9781783099009

Katalog-ID:

1066747121

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