Exploring the Digitizing Immigrant Letters Project as a Teaching Tool

Cancian and Wegge show how they use letters sent between migrants and non-migrants in the classroom for an undergraduate interdisciplinary course on gender and international migration. Their scope is to identify some of the ways in which students can study digitally accessible letters along with oth...

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Published in:Journal of American ethnic history 2014-07, Vol.33 (4), p.34-40
Main Authors: Cancian, Sonia, Wegge, Simone A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archival preservation
Archives
Class discussion
College students
Correspondence
Education
Educational aspects
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic Studies
Gender
Gender identity
Historic documents
History
History instruction
Human migration
Immigrants
Immigration
International migration
Internet
Letters
Library collections
Men
Methods
Migrants
Migration
Records and correspondence
Research facilities
Sex
Students
Teaching
Teaching methods
Videotape Recordings
Women
Written correspondence
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Summary:Cancian and Wegge show how they use letters sent between migrants and non-migrants in the classroom for an undergraduate interdisciplinary course on gender and international migration. Their scope is to identify some of the ways in which students can study digitally accessible letters along with other biographical material for discussing in class the interaction between gender dynamics and migration experiences. A further goal of theirs is to enhance students' appreciation of issues related to the access and preservation of historical documents, and explore the efficacy of using migrant correspondence as a viable online source for studying past migration movements.
ISSN:0278-5927
1936-4695
DOI:10.5406/jamerethnhist.33.4.0034