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“Any Sacrifice Is Worthwhile Doing”: Latina Au Pairs Migrating to the United States for Opportunities by Cuban, Sondra

“…A study of 20 highly educated Latin American women who entered the United States on au pair visas showed that they struggled to improve their opportunity…”
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Transnational families, ICTs and mobile learning by Cuban, Sondra

“…This article focuses on findings from an Economic and Social Research Council study in England about the uses of information and communication technologies…”
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Partners in Literacy: Schools and Libraries Building Communities through Technology by Cuban, Sondra, Cuban, Larry

“…Why have libraries and schools---both public institutions committed to community-based learning---adopted new technologies in dramatically different ways?…”
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Migrant Care Workers at the Intersection of Rural Belonging in Small English Communities by Spiliopoulos, Georgia, Cuban, Sondra, Broadhurst, Karen

“…Shortage of staff in the private care sector brought migrant participants of this study to rural communities in northwest England. The care workers, fourteen…”
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Examining the feminisation of migration concept for adult education by Cuban, Sondra

“…The feminisation of migration is absent in policy and programmatic discourses on adult education in the USA and England. This paper uses an intersectional…”
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'It is hard to stay in England': itineraries, routes, and dead ends: an (im)mobility study of nurses who became carers by Cuban, Sondra

“…This article presents findings from an Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) study on the roles of education in the trajectories of health care professionals…”
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“TALKING WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE”: DESTABILISING GENDERED COMMUNICATION IN THE WORKPLACE by Cuban, Sondra

“…An evaluation of a workplace course in England for English for Speakers of Other Language (ESOL) learners who were caregivers to the elderly found that while…”
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Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on the Mile: The Drive of Migrants in Fieldwork and Fiction by Cuban, Sondra, Fowler, Corinne

“…This article focuses on first-generation migrant workers in the service sector of England's North West and their mobile subjectivities. It combines the…”
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Home/work: the roles of education, literacy, and learning in the networks and mobility of professional women migrant carers in Cumbria by Cuban, Sondra

“…This study focuses on a group of highly skilled female migrants who were carers to the elderly, and the roles of education, literacy, and learning in their…”
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Book Review: As an Equal? Au Pairing in the 21st Century by Cuban, Sondra

“…As an Equal? Au Pairing in the 21st CenturyRosie Cox & Nicky Busch . As an Equal? Au Pairing in the 21st Century. London: Zed Books, 2018, 175 pp., $29.95…”
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'Us, the body': Two women's uses of health texts in Hawai'i by Cuban, Sondra

“…The researcher analysed two women's uses of popular culture texts on the island of Hawai'i. They read these texts in order to learn about, and manage, their…”
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‘For Some Reason, I'm Just Tired’: Women Domestic Workers Persisting in Community-Based Programmes by Cuban, Sondra

“…A study of women migrant domestic workers in the USA and their reasons for participating and persisting in community-based literacy and ESOL programmes is…”
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"TALKING WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE": DESTABILISING GENDERED COMMUNICATION IN THE WORKPLACE by CUBAN, SONDRA

“…An evaluation of a workplace course in England for English for Speakers of Other Language (ESOL) learners who were caregivers to the elderly found that while…”
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Where's the Justice in Service-Learning? Institutionalizing Service-Learning from a Social Justice Perspective at a Jesuit University by Cuban, Sondra, Anderson, Jeffrey B.

“…We attempt to answer where the social justice is in service-learning by probing what it is, how it looks in the process of being institutionalized at a Jesuit…”
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The Roles of ICTs in Sustaining the Mobilities of Transnational Families by Cuban, Sondra

“…Abstract This chapter is based on a study of 60 migrant women in Washington State, USA, and their communication with their families in and across borders…”
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"READING DON'T FIX NO CHEVYS": LITERACY IN THE LIVES OF YOUNG MEN / LITERACY AS SNAKE OIL: BEYOND THE QUICK FIX / READING THE NAKED TRUTH: LITERACY, LEGISLATION AND LIES / RESISTING READING MANDATES: HOW TO TRIUMPH WITH THE TRUTH by Cuban, Sondra

“…[...]the text equates instructional methods with teaching. [...]challenging the NRP led Garan into a transformation, creating a stronger conviction that…”
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"It Is Difficult to Be a Woman with a Dream of an Education:" Challenging U.S. Adult Basic Education Policies to Support Women Immigrants' Self-Determination by Cuban, Sondra, Stromquist, Nelly P

“…Women immigrants are an increasing population in the U.S. and in the Adult Basic Education (ABE) system, particularly in English to Speakers of Other Languages…”
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Before days: Women in a library literacy program in Hilo, Hawai'i. Talk story by Cuban, Sondra

“…Literacy has traditionally been linked to socio-economic development, moral improvement, cultural change, and individualism. Library literacy programs have…”
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Perspectives of Five Library and Information Studies Students Involved in Service Learning at a Community-Based Literacy Program by Cuban, Sondra, Hayes, Elisabeth

“…Literacy education may be a stronger issue today than ever for public libraries in serving those who lack access to print and electronic sources because of…”
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"So Lucky To Be Like that, Somebody Care": Two Case Studies of Women Learners and Their Persistence in a Hawai'i Literacy Program by Cuban, Sondra

“…Case studies of two female literacy learners depict how their caregiving roles at home and work influenced their literacy practices and persistence. Through…”
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