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Writing for Love and Money
- How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families
Engelsk Paperback
Writing for Love and Money
- How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780190877323
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0190877324
Udg. Dato:
10 okt 2019
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
206mm
Højde:
137mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
10 okt 2019
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge