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Domestic work, learning and literacy practices across transnational space

North, Amy; (2019) Domestic work, learning and literacy practices across transnational space. In: Gerrard, Jessica and Sriprakash, Arathi, (eds.) Migration, borders and education: International Sociological Inquiries. Routledge: London, UK. Green open access

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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.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Domestic work, learning and literacy practices across transnational space
ISBN-13: 9780429299711
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.4324/9780429299711
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429299711
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Literacy, migration, domestic work, gender, ESOL
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200592
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