Introduces a new framework of transnational family communication: Transnational ICT-based Communication Chains (TICCs)
Discusses the politics and policies surrounding transnational family communication
Explores how family members, when separated by borders, develop independent family identities

Autorentext

Sondra Cuban is Professor at Western Washington University, USA, and an educational sociologist studying the trajectories, aspirations, and struggles of women immigrants. She is the author of Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry (2013).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: I Wish I Was a Bird.- 2. Framing Transnational Family Communication: It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far.- 3. My Methodological Approach: It Reminds Me of Lots of Things.- 4. Cars and Schools and Heart is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women.- 5. The ICT-Based Networks of Highly Skilled Immigrant Women: I Had Bigger Ambitions.- 6. Care Talk within Transnational Families: I Hold Myself So I Don't Cry.- 7. Considering Immigrant Women and Equitable Communication.