Transnational Family Communication
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-58643-8 (ISBN)
Sondra Cuban is Professor at Western Washington University, USA, and an educational sociologist studying the trajectories, aspirations, and struggles of women immigrants. She is the author of Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry (2013).
1. Introduction: “I Wish I Was a Bird”.- 2. Framing Transnational Family Communication: “It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far”.- 3. My Methodological Approach: “It Reminds Me of Lots of Things”.- 4. Cars and Schools and Heart is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women.- 5. The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: “I Had Bigger Ambitions”.- 6. Care Talk within Transnational Families: “I Hold Myself So I Don’t Cry”.- 7. Considering Immigrant Women and Equitable Communication.
“The book is a relevant addition to ICT communication research and gives a marvellous insight into transnational familyhood. … The book is recommended reading for mobility as well as communication researchers, but it could also be of interest for a much wider audience because it offers interesting insights into contemporary behaviour patterns.” (Keiu Telve, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol. 8 (3), 2018)
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.09.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 3 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 298 p. 3 illus. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
Schlagworte | Care Talk • Communication Systems • Divergent Communication • Emotional Labor • Equitable Communication • Family Communication • ICT • Immigrant women • Immigration • Information and Communication Technologies • ingenious communication • Regional studies • SES • Transnational Communication • transnational families • transnational family communication • Washington State |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-58643-5 / 1137586435 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-58643-8 / 9781137586438 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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