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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 gende...

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Main Authors: Cuban, Sondra
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Social sciences
Communication
Sociology
Emigration and immigration
Sex Psychology
Gender expression
Gender identity
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging
Migration
Gender Studies
Communication studies
Media and Communication
Intercultural communication
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58644-5
Summary: 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 chapte
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XIII, 298 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781137586445
Index Number: HM716
CLC: C912

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