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Transnational family communication : immigrants and ICTs / Sondra Cuban.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: USA Palgrave macmillan 2017Description: xiii, 298 pages : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781137586438
Other title:
  • Transnational family communication
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.85 CUB.T
Contents:
Summary: "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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Book Book Dept. of Sociology Processing Center Dept. of Sociology 306.85 CUB.T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SOC9157

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"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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