At the Intersection of Gender, Language, and Transnationalism

Piller, Ingrid; Takahashi, Kimie

doi:10.1002/9781444324068.ch24

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“…Furthermore, linguistic speech patterns are often used to substitute for racial or national discrimination. Since the latter two forms of discrimination are illegal, linguistic discrimination is used as a common-sense excuse, although it is not lost upon many that most non-standard speakers of English usually happen to be minorities and/or transnational [60].…”

Section: Structural Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Intersectionality of Race and Trajectories of African Women into the Nursing Career in the United States

Semu

2020

Behavioral Sciences

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This paper uses narratives of Malawian-born registered nurses working in the United States to capture pathways through which African women are entering the nursing profession. The paper highlights how race, immigrant status and language acts as potential sources of discrimination within the nursing profession. The paper utilizes intersectionality as a feminist framework that places black women’s experiences at the center of analysis to capture the multidimensionality of their experiences. The qualitative study highlights the multiple pathways through which African immigrant women enter the nursing profession and how being African, immigrant female nurses predisposes them to discrimination in their interactions with employment institutions and patients. Focusing on African women’s experiences as recent immigrants enriches the global migration narrative and helps contextualize the intersectionality of race, gender and discrimination within particular contexts.

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Section: Structural Discriminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Intersectionality of Race and Trajectories of African Women into the Nursing Career in the United States

Semu

2020

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Central to the interview process was the eliciting of participants' autobiographical narratives and their reflections on their personal migration histories and the specific role of language and language-related issues in this (Pavlenko, 2007(Pavlenko, , 2008Piller & Takahashi, 2010).…”

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The communicative needs of Bangladeshi economic migrants: the functional values of host country languages versus English as a lingua franca

Seargeant

Erling

Solly

et al. 2017

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca

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This article investigates the language skills and the nature of language provision required by economic migrants from Bangladesh working in the Middle East. It focuses in particular on the perceived values of the host country language (Arabic) versus English as a language franca (ELF). While there have been a number of explorations of the value of learning the host country language for migrants in terms of both labour market outcomes and wellbeing, there is a paucity of, and pressing need for, studies investigating the value of ELF for economic migrants, particularly those from developing country contexts. This article presents the findings from an ethnographic study which explores the experiences, perceptions and specific language-related issues of a diverse cohort of returnee migrants from rural Bangladesh where, despite significant migration from the area, little is known about this population’s language use and communicative needs. Our findings suggest that both the host country language (Arabic) and ELF have important functional values, but that these vary depending on interlocutors, domains of work and contexts of situation, as well as on the relative statuses (within an ecology of global linguistic value) of the two languages in different contexts. The analysis thus provides fresh and significant evidence regarding the role of language in economic migration and development for low-skilled migrants, both to and from contexts in which English has no official status. The article concludes by considering the implications for the types of language education which might be most suitable for these and other economic migrants in comparable contexts.

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“…Sociolinguistic studies addressing language learning, language use and/or the commodification of language within care work contexts are in their relative infancy; the following work represents the bulk of the literature: Duff et al (2000), Schwartz (2006), Lorente (2010Lorente ( , 2012Lorente ( , 2017, Levin (2011), Ladegaard (2012, Dashti (2013), Divita (2014), Kwan and Dunworth (2016), Gonçalves (2015), ), Mick (2015, Jansson (2016); Otomo (2016), Strömmer (2016, Gonçalves and Schluter (2017), , ), North (2017 Kaiper (2018); Muth (2018), Ben Said (2019), Guinto (2019), Piller and Takahashi (2013) and Tang and Kan (2019). The heightened attention to these topics in recent years parallels the growing prominence of the global care industry that is increasingly pairing employers or clients together with employees who do not share a common language or cultural background.…”

Section: Previous Studies On Care Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction: Language, inequality and global care work

Gonçalves

Schluter

2020

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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IntroductionLanguage functions as a symbolic, interactional, material and ideological resource. On the one hand, it can perpetuate inequality by facilitating modes of domination and subordination between individuals of different status. On the other hand, those with access to linguistic and other semiotic resources may exploit them for their own empowerment. These considerations are relevant to every communicative context; however, they are particularly salient to workplace settings (Moyer 2018). These considerations are further accentuated in care work contexts, which function as prime sites of both privilege and marginalization. Within these sites, extremely asymmetrical power relations stem from unequal access to economic, material, linguistic and social capital (Bourdieu 1991) and, in some cases, also citizenship.A sociolinguistic investigation into the largely under-investigated sites of care work contexts merits attention for a number of reasons, three of which receive mention here. These sites' primary situatedness within private residences that, by definition, function outside of the realms of institutional oversight and control, represents the first of these reasons. Here, the linguistic tools of discursive discrimination can flourish as a direct result of their embeddedness in these hidden domains (Ladegaard 2017). The methodological challenges associated with both attaining access to these sites and collecting data from these often marginalized participantswith their ethnic, racial, socio-economic and linguistic backgrounds that typically differ from those of researchers (Anderson 2001; Lutz 2011)intensifies the invisibility of these domains. In conjunction with the aim of increasing their visibility, a second justification that drives this special issue's inquiry into care work includes the potential to reformulate conceptualizations of market dynamics based on a fuller understanding of the magnitude and influence of this sector. Recent work that addresses language and the workplace is often framed according

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At the Intersection of Gender, Language, and Transnationalism

Cited by 24 publications

References 42 publications

The Intersectionality of Race and Trajectories of African Women into the Nursing Career in the United States

The Intersectionality of Race and Trajectories of African Women into the Nursing Career in the United States

The communicative needs of Bangladeshi economic migrants: the functional values of host country languages versus English as a lingua franca

Introduction: Language, inequality and global care work

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