30.3560, Books: Writing for Love and Money: Vieira

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Subject: 30.3560, Books: Writing for Love and Money: Vieira

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:50:35
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Writing for Love and Money: Vieira

 


Title: Writing for Love and Money 
Subtitle: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://www.oup.com/academic 


Author: Kate Vieira

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190877316 Pages: 266 Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780190877323 Pages: 264 Price: U.S. $ 29.95


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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