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Transnational family communication : immigrants and ICTs / Sondra Cuban.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Palgrave Macmillan, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137586445
  • 9781137586438
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • JV6035 .T736 2017
  • H1-970
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Introduction: "I Wish I Was a Bird" -- Framing Transnational Family Communication: "It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far" -- My Methodological Approach: "It Reminds Me of Lots of Things" -- Cars and Schools and Heart Is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women -- The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: "I Had Bigger Ambitions" -- Care Talk Within Transnational Families: "I Hold Myself so I Don't Cry" -- Considering Immigrant Women and Equitable Communication.
Subject: "This work 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."--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: "I Wish I Was a Bird" -- Framing Transnational Family Communication: "It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far" -- My Methodological Approach: "It Reminds Me of Lots of Things" -- Cars and Schools and Heart Is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women -- The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: "I Had Bigger Ambitions" -- Care Talk Within Transnational Families: "I Hold Myself so I Don't Cry" -- Considering Immigrant Women and Equitable Communication.

"This work 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."--

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