ISBN:
9780203154236
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 175 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Madianou, Mirca Migration and new media
DDC:
331.40941
Keywords:
Communication, International / Technological innovations / Social aspects / Philippines
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Women foreign workers / Family relationships / Great Britain
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Interpersonal communication / Technological innovations / Social aspects / Philippines
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Communication in families / Philippines
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Children of foreign workers / Family relationships / Philippines
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Foreign workers, Philippine / Family relationships / Great Britain
Abstract:
How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several times a day, peruse social networking sites and leave the webcam for 12 hours achieving a sense of co-presence. Drawing on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between migrant mothers and their children who
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