Hands across cultures
| dc.contributor.author | Vasilnek, Gail | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-09-01T23:40:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-09-01T23:40:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-09-01T23:40:07Z | |
| dc.description | Undergraduate Thesis – Women Studies, University of Washington (2002) | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper describes the author's experience volunteering as an English language tutor at the Refugee Women's Alliance in Seattle, Washington. Through historical and cultural analyses, the author discusses why the literacy rate among Somali women is so low. The paper describes the barriers to education women in Somalia face and barriers to communication they face when arriving in the United States. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 93696 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/msword | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1773/2106 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.subject | Women Studies | en |
| dc.subject | Immigrants | en |
| dc.subject | Somalia | en |
| dc.subject | ESL | en |
| dc.subject | Literacy | en |
| dc.subject | Refugees | en |
| dc.subject | Participant Observation | en |
| dc.title | Hands across cultures | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |