Transnational Family Communication: Immigrants and Icts (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137586438)

This book 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. Early chapters of this book detail the current arguments and theories of transnational family communication in order to propose a new model thereof. Throughout, larger questions of global equality are addressed.


Author: Sondra Cuban
ISBN-10: 1137586435
ISBN-13: 9781137586438
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2017
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d