Transnational Family Communication: Immigrants And Icts
by Sondra Cuban /
2017 / English / PDF
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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 chapters of this book
detail the current arguments and theories of transnational family
communication in order to propose a new model thereof.
Throughout, larger questions of global equality are addressed.
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 chapters of this book
detail the current arguments and theories of transnational family
communication in order to propose a new model thereof.
Throughout, larger questions of global equality are addressed.