Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Scripts of servitude: language, labor migration and transnational domestic work
- Auflage
- 1st ed.
- Ort / Verlag
- Bristol: Multilingual Matters
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2017
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- 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.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9781783098989, 9781783099009, 1783098988, 1783099003DOI: 10.21832/9781783099009Titel-ID: cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781783099016
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Business & Economics, Emigration & Immigration, English language–Social aspects–Singapore, Foreign workers, Filipino, Foreign workers, Filipino–Singapore, Globalization, Labor, Language and languages, Language and languages–Economic aspects–Philippines, Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics, Political Science, Singapore, Social Science, Women foreign workers–Singapore–Language, Women household employees–Singapore, Women immigrants