Domestic Work, Learning and Literacy Practices across Transnational Space

Autor/in	North, Amy
Titel	Domestic Work, Learning and Literacy Practices across Transnational Space
Quelle	In: International Studies in Sociology of Education, 27 (2018) 2-3, S.217-238 (2 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (North, Amy)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0962-0214
DOI	10.1080/09620214.2018.1425101
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Females; Migrant Workers; Ethnography; Service Occupations; Housework; Literacy; English (Second Language); Qualitative Research; Observation; Interviews; Documentation; Cultural Influences; Social Support Groups; Reading Skills; Writing Skills; Nepal; United Kingdom (London); India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Weibliches Geschlecht; Wanderarbeiter; Ethnografie; Dienstleistungsberuf; Hausarbeit; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Qualitative Forschung; Beobachtung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Dokumentation; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Indien
Abstract	This paper explores the learning experiences and literacy practices of a group of female migrant domestic workers from Nepal, reporting on ethnographic data collected between 2008 and 2013. Drawing on the conceptualisation of literacy as a social practice, as well as the notion of translocational positionality, it examines the way in which the women's emerging literacy practices in English interacted with their experiences as migrant workers. It argues that understanding the transnational nature of the women's lives is essential to understanding the complex ways in which literacy was threaded through their social and material practices. In doing so it points to the need for a more complex conceptualisation of context and of the relationship between the local and global within literacy research, which pays attention to the way in which literacy practices interact with processes entailing movement and positioning across boundaries and between different transnational spaces. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01