Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work

By Beatriz P Lorente

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783098996
• ISBN13: 9781783098996
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.3"