Scripts Of Servitude : Language, Labor Migration And Transnational Domestic Work

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

• | Author: Beatriz P. Lorente
• | Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 376 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1783098988
• | ISBN-13: 9781783098989