Comments on: Language and the stratification of restaurant labour https://languageonthemove.com/language-and-the-stratification-of-restaurant-labour/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: “Por favor preguntar por el managuer” | Calvin N. Ho https://languageonthemove.com/language-and-the-stratification-of-restaurant-labour/#comment-45430 Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:10:47 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=13885#comment-45430 […] sign is quite similar to the one I discussed in a Language on the Move post from last year about language and racially/ethnically stratified restauran…. Both signs are from Japanese restaurants in areas that are not significant Japanese enclaves, and […]

]]> By: Khan https://languageonthemove.com/language-and-the-stratification-of-restaurant-labour/#comment-15802 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:40:59 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=13885#comment-15802 What an interesting post indeed. It triggers many thoughts: 1) the play gets played out when the apparently neutral semiotics is dug deeper 2) the links between the labour market and the right set of linguistic repertoires 3) the social distance and difference between community members

Would like to read more from you.

Khan
Pakistan

]]> By: Elsewhere on the Internet…. | The Plaid Bag Connection https://languageonthemove.com/language-and-the-stratification-of-restaurant-labour/#comment-15769 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:00:54 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=13885#comment-15769 […] Language, immigration, and restaurant labor […]

]]> By: Calvin https://languageonthemove.com/language-and-the-stratification-of-restaurant-labour/#comment-15768 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:57:45 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=13885#comment-15768 In reply to Li Jia.

Yes, there’s definitely a gendered component to all of this. Perhaps men and women have different opportunities for education and learning languages before and after migration. I would speculate, for instance, that among indigenous Mexicans in the US, men have a stronger grasp of Spanish than women (though someone who is an expert on this should correct me if I’m wrong).

]]> By: Li Jia https://languageonthemove.com/language-and-the-stratification-of-restaurant-labour/#comment-15465 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:11:52 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=13885#comment-15465 Many thanks for your interesting post, Calvin. I’ve also found similar labour stratification in a bordering city between China and Burma. Due to their lack of linguistic resources and social networks, many Burmese come to the border town taking up some low-wage labors, for males mostly working in construction fields whereas females in massage parlors. So I think the labor market segmentation is also gender-related for new settlers because of social and linguistic barriers.

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