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

Beatriz P. Lorente

ISBN 10: 1783098988 / ISBN 13: 9781783098989

Published by Multilingual Matters, 2017

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Scripts of Servitude | Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work | Beatriz P. Lorente | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2017 | Multilingual Matters | EAN 9781783098989 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scripts of Servitude | Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783098988
• ISBN 13: 9781783098989
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 11D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 261 grams
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Synopsis

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 links migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries. It sheds light on the everyday lives of transnational domestic workers and how they draw on their linguistic repertoires, and in particular on English, as they cross geographical and social spaces. By showing how the transnational mobility of labor is dependent on the selection and performance of particular assemblages of linguistic resources that index migrants as labor and not as people, the book provides a powerful lens with which to examine how migration contributes to relationships of inequality and how such inequalities are produced and challenged on the terrain of language.

About the Author

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.