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Scripts of Servitude offers a compelling and nuanced analysis of the centrality of language in the manufacturing and exporting of transnational Filipino domestic workers. It is an important contribution to our understanding of the macro and micro politics of inequality. It unequivocally shows that servitude is never voluntary. * Cecile B. Vigouroux, Simon Fraser University, Canada * This is simply one of the most profound and revealing studies in language, globalization and social issues I have ever read. The author and the women with whom she worked become one in this textbook example of contemporary sociolinguistic ethnography, and the issue of what counts as English in the world, and how it counts, has rarely been more delicately illustrated than in this book. * Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands *

Lorente offers a nuanced portrait of key nodes in the interactional infrastructure which shape transnational labor migration and racialized care work. She deftly shows how states and labor brokers work to shape the way domestic workers from the Philippines understand space, time and language, while the women resourcefully and laughingly craft alternative identities, and better futures. The most brilliant sociolinguistic ethnography I've read this year - it sets a new standard for our field. * Bonnie McElhinny, University of Toronto, Canada * Scripts of Servitude offers a compelling and nuanced analysis of the centrality of language in the manufacturing and exporting of transnational Filipino domestic workers. It is an important contribution to our understanding of the macro and micro politics of inequality. It unequivocally shows that servitude is never voluntary. * Cecile B. Vigouroux, Simon Fraser University, Canada * This is simply one of the most profound and revealing studies in language, globalization and social issues I have ever read. The author and the women with whom she worked become one in this textbook example of contemporary sociolinguistic ethnography, and the issue of what counts as English in the world, and how it counts, has rarely been more delicately illustrated than in this book. * Jan Blommaert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands *

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Beatriz P. Lorente is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bern and a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Multilingualism of the University of Fribourg and the University of Teacher Education Fribourg.

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