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Publication details [#56591]
Ladegaard, Hans J. 2012. The discourse of powerlessness and repression: Identity construction in domestic helper narratives. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16 (4) : 450–482. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper discusses how narratives of traumatised foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) in a church shelter in Hong Kong, may be employed for identity negotiation, but also for strenghtening FDHs in order to re-author their lifestories and manage their own lives.