Scripts of servitude : language, labor migration and transnational domestic work / Beatriz P. Lorente.

Author/Creator:

Lorente, Beatriz P. author.

Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2018]

Series:

Critical language and literacy studies.
Critical language and literacy studies : 24

Format/Description:

Book
xvii, 176 pages ; 21 cm.

Subjects:

Foreign workers, Filipino -- Singapore.
Women foreign workers -- Singapore -- Language.
Women household employees -- Singapore.
English language -- Social aspects -- Singapore.
Language and languages -- Economic aspects -- Philippines.

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.

ISBN:

9781783098996
1783098996
9781783098989
1783098988
9781783099023

OCLC:

1004206453

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