ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the complicated engagement of Filipinos in Singapore with inequalities of multilingualism. It aims to show that Filipinos’ linguistic marginality or Otheredness is multilayered in nature. Through an analysis of discourses and ideologies underlying and embedded in actual language use in the linguistic landscape of Lucky Plaza in Singapore, the chapter demonstrates how Filipinos are invisibilized due to the dominance of state-defined multilingualism, mobilized as servants of globalization, and differentiated internally along class configurations.