ISBN:
9781452954226
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white)
DDC:
305.9069120973
Schlagwort(e):
Einwanderer
;
Rechtsstellung
;
Lesen
;
Schreiben
;
Soziale Mobilität
;
Integration
;
Literacy Social aspects
;
Immigrants
;
Emigration and immigration law
;
Legal documents Social aspects
;
Azorean Americans Social conditions
;
Brazilian Americans Social conditions
;
Brazilians Social conditions
;
USA
Kurzfassung:
'American by Paper' reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the social realities facing documented and undocumented immigrants who use everyday acts of writing to negotiate papers - the visas, green cards, and passports that promise access to the American Dream. It is both an ethnography, filled with illuminating details about contemporary immigrant lives, and a critical intervention into two leading - and conflicting - scholarly ideas of literacy and its social role.
Anmerkung:
Previously issued in print: 2016
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5749/minnesota/9780816697519.001.0001
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816697519.001.0001
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