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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lorente, Beatriz P. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Kubota, Ryuko (Contribuidor), Morgan, Brian (Contribuidor), Pennycook, Alastair (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2017]
Colección:Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Temas:
English language > Social aspects > Singapore.
Foreign workers, Filipino > Singapore.
Language and languages > Economic aspects > Philippines.
Women foreign workers > Singapore > Language.
Women household employees > Singapore.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
English.
Language.
domestic work.
labour migration.
migration.
multilingualism.
transnationalism.
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