Letters across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants

Introduction; B.S.Elliott, David A.Gerber & S.M.Sinke PART ONE: LIMITS AND OPPORTUNITIES How Representative are Emigrant Letters? An Exploration of the German Case; W.Helbich & W.D.Kamphoefner The Limits of the Australian Emigrant Letter; E.Richards Marriage through the Mail: North American Correspondence Marriage from Early Print To the Web; S.M.Sinke PART TWO: WRITING CONVENTIONS AND PRACTICES Irish Emigration and the Art of Letter-Writing; D.Fitzpatrick The Importance of Correspondence in Lithuanian Immigrant Life; D.Markelis Epistolary Communication between Migrant Workers and Their Families; M.A.Vargas PART THREE: SILENCES AND CENSORSHIP Epistolary Masquerades: Acts of Deceiving and Withholding in Immigrant Letters; D.A.Gerber Reading and Writing across the Borders of Dictatorship: Self-censorship and Emigrant Experience in Nazi and Stalinist Europe; A.Goldberg PART FOUR: EDITORIAL INTERVENTIONS Polish-American Letters to the Editors of Ameryka-Echo, 1922-1969; A.D.Jaroszynska-Kirchmann Immigrant Letters in the Periodical Press in Late Nineteenth-Century Wales; W.Jones PART FIVE: NEGOTIATIONS OF IDENTITY Negotiating Space, Time, and Identity: The Hutton-Pellett Letters and a British Child's Wartime Evacuation to Canada; H.Brown The Ukrainian Government-in-Exile's Postal Network and the Construction of National Identity; K.Lemiski PART SIX: LETTERS AND THE STATE Immigrant Petition Letters in Early Modern Saxony; A.Schunka Emigrant Correspondence with Russian Consulates in Montreal, Vancouver, and Halifax, 1899-1922; V.Kukushkin