Writing for Love and Money - How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Kate Vieira (Associate Professor and the Susan J. Cellmer Distinguished Chair in Literacy, Program in Composition and Rhetoric, Department of Education)
Dimensions:	212 x 145 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-087731-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Refugees & political asylum Promotions
LSN:	0-19-087731-6
Barcode:	9780190877316

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