Thesis
Global brokers with language power: Migrant English teachers in Guadalajara, Mexico
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2004
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/179
Abstract
Global demands for English language teachers allow English speakers to migrate to any one of the majority of nations to teach English. Migrant English teachers’ (MET) reasons for relocating contrast with those discussed in the migration studies literature: METs rarely migrate out of economic or political necessity, but out of personal inclination. They are elite migrants in a working class world. Moreover, the MET’s position within the milieu of power relations in any destination society is not so much determined by his/her culture of origin as by the structure of the situation in which the MET embeds him/herself. This thesis modifies Wolf’s analysis of “power-brokers,” to assess the MET’s position in Guadalajara society. In drawing on over three years experience within Mexico’s English teaching industry and interviews with 105 METs in Guadalajara, Mexico, I examine connections between general global processes and MET lives in Guadalajara to demonstrate that METs are best perceived as brokers mediating between local learners and a global society operating in a global code—English.
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Details
- Title
- Global brokers with language power
- Creators
- Troy M. Wilson
- Contributors
- Nancy P. McKee (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99900525036101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis