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Shifting Global Literacy Networks: How Emigration Promotes Informal Literacy Learning in Latvia
Author(s) -
Vieira Kate
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12241
Subject(s) - literacy , information literacy , ethnography , critical literacy , sociology , family literacy , homeland , politics , pedagogy , political science , anthropology , law
A study of migrants' homeland family members in Latvia, a country undergoing drastic political change, this article examines migration‐driven literacy‐learning in shifting transnational contexts. Building from critiques of place‐based literacy ethnographies, it documents three kinds of informal literacy learning—print literacy learning, digital literacy learning, and anticipatory literacy learning— resulting from the movement of people across shifting spatial and temporal fields.