1 option
Scripts of servitude : language, labor migration and transnational domestic work / Beatriz P. Lorente.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lorente, Beatriz P., author.
- Series:
- Critical language and literacy studies
- Critical language and literacy studies ; 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foreign workers, Filipino--Singapore.
- Foreign workers, Filipino.
- Women foreign workers--Singapore--Language.
- Women foreign workers.
- Women household employees--Singapore.
- Women household employees.
- English language--Social aspects--Singapore.
- English language.
- Language and languages--Economic aspects--Philippines.
- Language and languages.
- Language and languages--Economic aspects.
- English language--Social aspects.
- Philippines.
- Singapore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 176 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2018]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Language and transnational domestic workers
- The making of "workers of the world": language and the labor brokerage state
- Assembling the "supermaid": language and communication skills for "vulnerable occupations"
- Marketing domestic workers: maid agencies in Singapore
- The English-speaking Other looks back
- Translating selves: the trajectories of transnational Filipino domestic workers
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783099009
- 1783099003
- Publisher Number:
- 99981665415
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.