Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780190877330

Related ISBNs:

9780190877323, 9780190877316, 9780190877347

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Date of Addition:

12/17/22

Copyrighted By:

N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education, Social Studies, Language Arts, Philosophy, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.