Scripts of Servitude
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Scripts of Servitude
Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work
Lorente, Beatriz P.
Channel View Publications Ltd
10/2017
200
Dura
Inglês
9781783098996
15 a 20 dias
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.
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
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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.
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
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