Bøker av B. Anderson

The provision of care has been widely referred to as facing a 'crisis'. International migrants are increasingly relied upon to provide care - as domestic workers, nannies, care assistants and nurses. This international volume examines the global construction of migrant care labour and how it manifests itself in different contexts.

This work marries qualitative ethnographic methods to quantitative acoustic methods. The analysis describes how internal and external factors in phonological change differ and demonstrates how these two forces interact to structure the phonological systems of Appalachian and African American Southern Migrant speakers in the Detroit, Michigan area.

The standard introduction to the subject, this major work of scholarship uses a wealth of historical, archaelogical, literary and theological sources to analyse and interpret the familiar Biblical narrative in the context of our modern knowledge of the ancient world without any denominational standpoint.