Transnational Family Communication
Immigrants and ICTs
This book explores the struggles that immigrant women experience when communicating with their transnational families through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Sondra Cuban recounts the fascinating stories of sixty female immigrants living in Washington State, and explores how gender, social class, nationality, and language influence their ICT usage. She addresses the emotional labor involved in interacting with the families they left behind as well as their ingenious communication systems which challenge the existing research surrounding this unique phenomenon. Early chapters of this book detail the current arguments and the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-58644-5
- EAN: 9781137586445
- Produktnummer: 24053886
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'528 KB
Über den Autor
Sondra Cuban is Professor at Western Washington University, USA, and an educational sociologist studying the trajectories, aspirations, and struggles of women immigrants. She is the author of Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry (2013).
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