American by Paper: How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy

by Kate Vieira

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816697523
• ISBN13: 9780816697526
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"