Public libraries : a meeting place for immigrant women?
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Audunson, R.A., Essmat, S. & Aabø, S. (2011). Public libraries : a meeting place for immigrant women? Library & Information Science Research, 33 (3), 220-227 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2011.01.003Sammendrag
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.