Passing Literacies: Soviet Immigrant Elders and Intergenerational Language Practice
Journal: Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Year: 2021

Using a qualitative approach through interview data and a grounded theory methodology, this dissertation focuses on the literacy practices of immigrant families from various former Soviet Republics, primarily Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants in the Boston area. The immigrant literacy users in my study developed reading and writing strategies within spaces of contingency, flux, and danger in order to survive. By interviewing these immigrants who are now in their seventies, eighties, and ninetie