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, it unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that links migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries.

About the author

Beatriz P. Lorente is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bern and a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Multilingualism of the University of Fribourg and the University of Teacher Education Fribourg.

Summary

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, it unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that links migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries.

Product details

• Authors: Beatriz P Lorente, Beatriz P. Lorente
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781783098996
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-899-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 371 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy; Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics