Beatriz P. Lorente

Gebundenes Buch

Scripts of Servitude

Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Beatriz P. Lorente is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bern and a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Multilingualism of the University of Fribourg and the University of Teacher Education Fribourg.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781783098996
• ISBN-10: 1783098996
• Artikelnr.: 48461010