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What Kind of Literacy? Reflections on the Experiences of Migrant Domestic Workers Negotiating Learning in London
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North, Amy – European Education, 2017
This article is concerned with the literacy learning experiences of a group of female migrant domestic workers from Nepal and India who participated in weekly literacy support sessions at the Migrant Resource Centre in London. The article draws on qualitative research to explore the women's engagement with different forms of learning, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Learning Experience, Migrant Workers
Domestic Work, Learning and Literacy Practices across Transnational Space
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North, Amy – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2018
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Migrant Workers, Ethnography