Public libraries: A meeting place for immigrant women?
| Autor: | Svanhild Aabø, Sophie Essmat, Ragnar Audunson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | Library & Information Science Research. 33:220-227 |
| ISSN: | 0740-8188 |
| Popis: | The potential role of the public library in the lives of immigrant women is elicited by in-depth interviews with nine female immigrants to Norway from Iran, Afghanistan, and Kurdistan. The research utilizes social capital theory, the concepts of communities of practice and legitimate peripheral participation, as well as the concepts of high intensive versus low intensive meeting places. The results indicate that the library plays different roles in the different stages in the respondents' experiences as immigrants. It allows for legitimate peripheral participation when the immigrants move from observing at a distance to more active participation. The library functions as a high intensive as well as a low intensive meeting place and seems to contribute to building social capital in a variety of ways. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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