Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ligia A. MihutSeries:Composition, Literacy, and CulturePublish date:11/11/2025Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822967712ISBN-10:822967715UPC:9780822967712Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Literacy, Public Policy, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:ImmigrationSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC1BPGJ3D0
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research mixed with archival work, Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity explores literacy's entanglement in networks of economic and political forces. Ligia A. Mihut proposes and theorizes the figure of the literacy broker, embodied by those who help immigrants with reading and writing as they cross national, cultural, and linguistic borders. Whether...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822967712ISBN-10:822967715UPC:9780822967712Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Literacy, Public Policy, Emigration & ImmigrationBook Topic:ImmigrationSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC1BPGJ3D0
Ligia A. Mihut is associate professor in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Miami. Her areas of research include transnational literacies, community-based research, emergent technologies, and emotion studies. Her work has been published in College Composition and Communication, Literacy in Composition Studies, Reflections, and several edited collections.
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