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Beatriz P Lorente, Beatriz P. Lorente

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

English · Paperback / Softback

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Description

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.

Product details

Authors	Beatriz P Lorente, Beatriz P. Lorente
Publisher	Multilingual Matters

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	01.10.2017

EAN	9781783098989
ISBN	978-1-78309-898-9
No. of pages	196
Dimensions	148 mm x 210 mm x 11 mm
Weight	261 g
Series	Critical Language and Literacy Studies Critical Language and Literacy
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

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