Scripts of Servitude : : Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work / / Beatriz P. Lorente.
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...
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Lorente, Beatriz P., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Scripts of Servitude : Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work / Beatriz P. Lorente. Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Critical Language and Literacy Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editors' Preface -- References -- 1. Language and Transnational Domestic Workers -- 2. The Making of 'Workers of the World': Language and the Labor Brokerage State -- 3. Assembling the 'Supermaid': Language and Communication Skills for 'Vulnerable Occupations' -- 4. Marketing Domestic Workers: Maid Agencies in Singapore -- 5. The English-Speaking Other Looks Back -- 6. Translating Selves: The Trajectories of Transnational Filipino Domestic Workers -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) English language Social aspects Singapore. Foreign workers, Filipino Singapore. Language and languages Economic aspects Philippines. Women foreign workers Singapore Language. Women household employees Singapore. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics. bisacsh English. Language. domestic work. labour migration. migration. multilingualism. transnationalism. Kubota, Ryuko, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Morgan, Brian, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Pennycook, Alastair, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110663129 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters eBook Package 2015-2017 9783110606706 print 9781783098996 https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783099009 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781783099009 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781783099009/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editors' Preface -- References -- 1. Language and Transnational Domestic Workers -- 2. The Making of 'Workers of the World': Language and the Labor Brokerage State -- 3. Assembling the 'Supermaid': Language and Communication Skills for 'Vulnerable Occupations' -- 4. Marketing Domestic Workers: Maid Agencies in Singapore -- 5. The English-Speaking Other Looks Back -- 6. Translating Selves: The Trajectories of Transnational Filipino Domestic Workers -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendices -- Index |
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