Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families

by Kate Vieira

This book tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money. According to the UN, 244 million people currently live outside their countries of birth. The human drama behind these numbers is that parents are often separated from children, brothers from sisters, lovers from each other. Migration, undertaken in response to problems of the wallet, also poses problems for the heart...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190877324
• ISBN13: 9780190877323
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"