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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.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Language--Social aspects.
- Immigrants.
- Literacy--Social aspects.
- Literacy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Preface
- Introduction: Literacy Learning in Immigrants' Homelands
- Chapter One: What's New about Writing for Love and Money?
- Chapter Two: Writing for Love and Money on Three Continents
- Chapter Three: Learning to Log On: From Post to Internet in Brazil
- Chapter Four: Learning Languages: From Soviet Union to European Union in Latvia
- Chapter Five: Teaching Homeland Family: Love and Money in the U.S.
- Conclusion: Migration-Driven Literacy Learning in Uncertain Times
- Afterword: The Mothers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 18, 2019).
- Also issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-087734-0
- 0-19-087735-9
- 0-19-087733-2
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