Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work: 24 (Critical Language and Literacy Studies) - Tapa blanda

Lorente, Beatriz P; Lorente, Beatriz P.

 
9781783098989: Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work: 24 (Critical Language and Literacy Studies)

Sinopsis

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.

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

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9781783098996: Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work: 24 (Critical Language and Literacy Studies)

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ISBN 10:  1783098996 ISBN 13:  9781783098996
Editorial: Multilingual Matters, 2017
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