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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Beatriz P Lorente, Beatriz P. Lorente
• Editore: Multilingual Matters
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781783098996
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-899-6
• Pagine: 196
• Dimensioni: 153 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Peso: 371 g
• Serie: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy; Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature