Multilingualism, Migration, and Domestic Work
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- ISBN 9783111714127
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 21 Nov 2025
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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How do Filipina domestic workers experience multilingualism in their daily lives? To whom do they ascribe or deny agency in their narratives of language and migration? This study explores the intersection of multilingualism and transnational migration in the global sector of domestic work in Spain, the second largest labor market in the EU. Over the course of three years, a corpus of field notes, narrative interviews, focus groups, language portraits and language maps was built with 25 Filipina domestic workers (FDWs) in Madrid, partly collected through participatory approaches. The analysis focuses on three main aspects: first, spatial repertoires; second, the multilingual everyday life and lived experiences of languages; and third, the agency of FDWs. The aim of this study is to better understand the dynamics that emerge from inequalities of multilingualism in the feminized sector of transnational domestic work.
The book expands our understanding of multilingualism and transnational migration in the feminized sector of paid domestic work. It is a pioneering contribution to the growing field of language and migration, offering new insights into the sociolinguistic aspects of migration from Spain’s only former colony in Asia to Spain. Theoretically, the study adds a postcolonial and critical approach to language and migration, using a variety of methodological techniques.
Sandra Issel-Dombert, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
