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"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, gre...

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Autor principal: Vieira, Kate, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literacy > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration law.
Brazilians > Social conditions.
Brazilian Americans > Social conditions.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Documents juridiques > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine açoreenne > Massachusetts > Conditions sociales.
Americains d'origine bresilienne > Massachusetts > Conditions sociales.
Bresiliens > Massachusetts > Conditions sociales.
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Legal documents > Social aspects > United States.
Azorean Americans > Massachusetts > Social conditions.
Brazilian Americans > Massachusetts > Social conditions.
Brazilians > Massachusetts > Social conditions.
United States.
Massachusetts.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An American with Papers
  • How Documents Matter in Migrants' Lives
  • Literacy and Assimilation in an Age of Papers : The View from South Mills
  • "American by Paper" : Azorean and Azorean American Literacy Lives
  • Undocumented in a Documentary Society : Brazilian Literacy Lives
  • "It's Not Because of the English" : Literacy Lives of the Young
  • Lessons Learned from Transnational Lives : Toward a Sociomaterialist Literacy.

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