The Huddled Masses

Communication and Immigration

• Author(s): Gary Gumpert, Susan J. Drucker,
• Publisher: Hampton Press
• Pages: 337
• ISBN_10: 1572730986
  ISBN_13: 9781572730984
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics , Political Science / Civil Rights , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations ,

Description:... This volume provides a multidisciplinary approach to the examination of the social implications of immigration and chapters are addressed from three points of view - communication, environment-behavior, and architecture and design. From communications studies significant issues relate to nonverbal and interpersonal communication and mass media availability and use; from environment-behavior studies the authors examine culturally different perceptions of environment, issues of place attachment, and the impact of the built environment on communicative behavior; from architecture and design studies chapters address culturally defined needs and demands placed on built environment as worthy of inquiry. In their totality, these chapters reveal the variables that shape the immigrants' experience as manifested in the nature of social interaction and the environment in which such interaction occurs.