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Writing for love and money : how migration drives literacy learning in transnational families / Kate Vieira.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vieira, Kate, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literacy--Social aspects.
- Literacy.
- Immigrants--Correspondence.
- Immigrants.
- Letter writing--Social aspects.
- Letter writing.
- Written communication--Social aspects.
- Written communication.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 243 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This book tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money. According to the UN, 244 million people currently live outside their countries of birth. The human drama behind these numbers is that parents are often separated from children, brothers from sisters, lovers from each other. Migration, undertaken in response to problems of the wallet, also poses problems for the heart. Writing for Love and Money shows how families separated across borders turn to writing to address these problems. Based on research with transnational families in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and North America, it describes how people write to sustain meaningful relationships across distance and to better their often impoverished circumstances. Despite policy makers' concerns about "brain drain," the book reveals that immigrants' departures do not leave homelands wholly educationally hobbled. Instead, migration promotes experiences of literacy learning in transnational families as they write to reach the two life goals that globalization consistently threatens: economic solvency and familial intimacy." -- Provided by publisher.
- "Based on research with transnational families in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and North America, Writing for Love and Money tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vieira, Kate, 1977- author. Writing for love and money
- ISBN:
- 9780190877323
- 0190877324
- 9780190877316
- 0190877316
- OCLC:
- 1082541255
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