Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work - Critical Language and Literacy Studies - Beatriz P. Lorente - Books - Channel View Publications Ltd - 9781783098989 - October 19, 2017
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Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work - Critical Language and Literacy Studies


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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.


200 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 19, 2017
ISBN13 9781783098989
Publishers Channel View Publications Ltd
Pages 176
Dimensions 209 × 149 × 12 mm   ·   272 g
Language English  

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