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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, the book unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that links migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries. It sheds light on the everyday lives of transnational domestic workers and how they draw on their linguistic repertoires, and in particular on E
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- Author
- Lorente, Beatriz P.
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781783099016
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Linguistics, Language Arts & Disciplines
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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