Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centres ; Part 1. Call Centres as Building Blocks for Narratives of the Nation State ; 2. "El Salvador Works": The Creation and Negotiation of a National Brand and the Transnational Imaginary; 3. Growing Downhill? Contestations of Sovereignty and the Creation of Itinerant Workers in Guyanese Call Centres; 4. "An Island Off the West Coast of Australia": Multiplex Geography and the Growth of Transnational Telemediated Service Work in Mauritius

Part 2. Constructing Nationally Appropriate (and Inappropriate) Workers5. Serving the World, Serving the Nation: Everyday Nationalism and English in Philippine Offshore Call Centres; 6. Transnational "Homies" and the Urban Middle Class: Enactments of Class, Nation, and Modernity in Guatemalan Call Centres; Part 3. Caught in the Middle
Labours of Borders and Crossings; 7. Migrations a l'envers: Global Service Work and Discursive Crossings; 8. Border Speech between Two National Linguistic Ideologies: The Case of Bilingual El Paso Call Centres; Summary