Letters Across Borders The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants

• Main Authors: Elliot, B, Gerber, D, Sinke, S
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2006
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Age; Class; Congresses; Correspondence; Emigration and immigration; Ethnicity; Gender; History; Immigrants; Meaning; Migrants; Nationality

This collection addresses the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters. As these letters are increasingly seen as key, rather than incidental, documents in the interpretations of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity/nationality, the scholars gathered here demonstrate a diversity of new ap...