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Hans Jorgen Ladegaard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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language competence identity construction and discursive boundary making distancing and alignment in domestic Migrant Worker narratives
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2020Co-Authors: Hans Jorgen LadegaardAbstract:Many people in developing countries are faced with a dilemma. If they stay at home, their children are kept in poverty with no prospects of a better future; if they become Migrant Workers, they will suffer long-term separation from their families. This article focuses on one of the weakest groups in the global economy: domestic Migrant Workers. It draws on a corpus of more than 400 narratives recorded at a church shelter in Hong Kong and among Migrant Worker returnees in rural Indonesia and the Philippines. In sharing sessions, Migrant women share their experiences of working for abusive employers, and the article analyses how language is used to include and exclude. The women tell how their employers construct them as “incompetent” and “stupid” because they do not speak Chinese. However, faced by repression and marginalisation, the women use their superior English language skills to get back at their employers and momentarily gain the upper hand. Drawing on ideologies of language as the theoretical concept, the article provides a discourse analysis of selected excerpts focusing on language competence and identity construction.
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reconceptualising home family and self identity struggles in domestic Migrant Worker returnee narratives
Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019Co-Authors: Hans Jorgen LadegaardAbstract:This article reports on a study of domestic Migrant Worker returnee narratives. The stories were recorded in villages in Java, Indonesia, and the women talk about their experience of remigration. B...
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codeswitching and emotional alignment talking about abuse in domestic Migrant Worker returnee narratives
Language in Society, 2018Co-Authors: Hans Jorgen LadegaardAbstract:Early research on bilingualism and emotion suggests that bilingual speakers’ L1 may be preferred for emotional expression whereas L2 may be used for emotional detachment. The evidence comes primarily from surveys, interviews, and laboratory studies. Studies of bilingual codeswitching (CS) and emotion tend to focus on perception and recollection of experience rather than actual language data. This article uses data from domestic Migrant-Worker returnee narratives to explore the use of CS in storytelling. Domestic-Worker returnees in Indonesia participated in sharing sessions in which they talked about the trauma they experienced while they worked overseas as domestic helpers. CS was widely used and, through a discourse analysis of selected excerpts, the article shows that CS is used for addressee specification and emotional alignment. The article concludes by considering how researchers may use the trauma narratives of repressed groups for social activism. (Codeswitching and emotion, domestic Migrant Workers, trauma narratives, Indonesia)*
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coping with trauma in domestic Migrant Worker narratives linguistic emotional and psychological perspectives
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2015Co-Authors: Hans Jorgen LadegaardAbstract:Trauma can be defined as an event that goes beyond ordinary modes of experience and linguistic representation. It represents a break not just with a particular form of representation but with the possibility of representation at all. Drawing on a large corpus of domestic Migrant Worker narratives, the article analyses trauma narratives in which Migrant women share their experiences while working for abusive employers. The stories deal with unspeakable suffering and humiliation, and the article attempts to outline the narrative structures that characterise trauma storytelling: broken narratives with voids in the narrative flow. It also analyses the emotional component of trauma narratives focusing on crying, which is seen as an authentication of feeling and meaning. Finally, the article considers how the women make sense of their traumatic experiences, and how peer support becomes essential in the narrators' attempts to rewrite their life stories from victimhood to survival and beyond. 創傷可定義為超越恆常經歷與語言表達的事件,其表達模式不但會脫離特定的形 式,更可能完全談不上是一種表達行為。本文取材自一個結集大量外籍家庭傭工 敍事的語料庫,分析女性外籍家傭表述如何受僱主虐待的創傷敍述。這些經歷記 錄了令人髮指的傷痛與凌辱;本文嘗試分析此類創傷敍述的特有敍事結構:敍事 流程破碎,中間每每留下段段空白。本文亦會分析創傷敍事的情感表述,聚焦痛 哭這一行為,因為此種表現一般被認為是真實感覺與意義的佐證。最後,本文會 探討女性如何理解自己的創傷經歷,而同儕支援又如何有效地協助敍事者走出受 害者的陰霾,轉而以倖存者或更超然的態度重寫自己的親身經歷。[Chinese]
Kelly Gerard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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asean s governance of Migrant Worker rights
Third World Quarterly, 2018Co-Authors: Charanpal Singh Bal, Kelly GerardAbstract:AbstractTemporary Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia are subject to various abuses in recruitment, work and repatriation. A decade ago ASEAN governments committed to developing an Instrument governing Migrant Worker rights, but a series of deadlocks have stymied this agreement. Prevailing accounts explain this impasse as the consequence of incompatible national interests, norms of non-interference and consensus, a lack of institutional capacity and the limits of rights advocacy in ASEAN. Conversely, utilising a political economy framework, this article demonstrates this impasse in regional governance reflects societal-level conflicts among Migrant Workers, civil society organisations, business groups and state-based actors, generated by the latter’s adoption of Migrant labour as both a livelihood and development strategy.
Hila Shamir - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the paradox of legality temporary Migrant Worker programs and vulnerability to trafficking
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Hila ShamirAbstract:The paper analyzes why temporary work migration programs (TMWPs) - the very migration regimes that are supposed to protect Migrant Workers from vulnerability to the severe labor market exploitation caused by undocumented status - paradoxically may end up exacerbating vulnerability to human trafficking. The paper identifies the common features of TMWPs that might increase or decrease Workers’ vulnerability to trafficking. Seven main elements of such programs are discussed: recruitment practices and debt; travel documents withholding; labor market mobility restrictions (such as binding arrangements); family accompaniment restrictions; housing requirements and restrictions; exclusion from labor and employment laws; and the temporary nature of Migrant Workers’ stay in the host country and the obstacles to naturalization there. The paper concludes by addressing the question whether such programs should therefore be the target of anti-trafficking campaigns. It argues that while TMWPs do indeed inherently and necessarily limit Migrant Workers' market mobility and bargaining power to some extent, the degree of harmfulness of these limits and restrictions is contingent on the details of the program and the wider context of employment and labor market practices.
Lenore Lyons - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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transcending the border transnational imperatives in singapore s Migrant Worker rights movement
Critical Asian Studies, 2009Co-Authors: Lenore LyonsAbstract:In the last five years, interest among civil society actors in the issues Migrant domestic Workers face in Singapore has exploded. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), informal networks, and faith-based groups have all formed to address the needs and interests of these Workers. Most of these organizations are welfare-oriented, providing support services, training programs, and social networking opportunities. Some engage in advocacy and research activities. This latter group has lobbied successfully for important changes in how female Migrant Workers are recruited into and deployed within the domestic labor market. To date, their activities have been focused at the local level through their engagements with the Singaporean government, employment agencies, and employers. This orientation, however, has recently begun to change as they seek to develop transnational networks and support regional and international campaigns. This article examines the reasons behind this interest in cross-border organizing thr...
Charanpal Singh Bal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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asean s governance of Migrant Worker rights
Third World Quarterly, 2018Co-Authors: Charanpal Singh Bal, Kelly GerardAbstract:AbstractTemporary Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia are subject to various abuses in recruitment, work and repatriation. A decade ago ASEAN governments committed to developing an Instrument governing Migrant Worker rights, but a series of deadlocks have stymied this agreement. Prevailing accounts explain this impasse as the consequence of incompatible national interests, norms of non-interference and consensus, a lack of institutional capacity and the limits of rights advocacy in ASEAN. Conversely, utilising a political economy framework, this article demonstrates this impasse in regional governance reflects societal-level conflicts among Migrant Workers, civil society organisations, business groups and state-based actors, generated by the latter’s adoption of Migrant labour as both a livelihood and development strategy.