Migrant Workers and Mobile Phones: Technological, Temporal, and Spatial Simultaneity

Paragas, Fernando

doi:10.4324/9781315134499-3

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“…the anecdotic evidence reported by Paragas, 2010, andHahn andKibora, 2008). Future research could improve on this by using individual household-level data that include more precise measures for income and financial flows than the village-level data.…”

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Labor mobility and technology diffusion: A new concept and its application to rural Southeast Asia

Hübler

2015

Journal of Asian Economics

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“…Anecdotic evidence from developing countries describes that mobile phones are used for communication with migrant kinsmen (Paragas, 2010).…”

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Labor mobility and technology diffusion: A new concept and its application to rural Southeast Asia

Hübler

2015

Journal of Asian Economics

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“…There are, for examples, places in southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa where people who own only a SIM card will borrow the handset of a neighbor and insert their own SIM card to place a call (Ling and Donner 2009). While this system is somewhat awkward, poorer populations now have a viable way to check on prices for their crops, arrange money transfers from children or relatives living in the cities, or maintain social contact with family members working far away from home (Law and Peng 2006;Paragas 2008).…”

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2013

Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Communication

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“…Much research has focused on the key role that mobile phones have had in very different migratory experiences. These include those of rural Jamaicans (Horst 2006;Horst and Miller 2006), overseas Filipinos (Madianou and Miller 2012;Paragas 2009;Parreñas 2005; Uy-Tioco 2007) and Chinese regional migrants (Chu and Yang 2006;Law and Peng 2008;Qiu 2009;Wallis 2011;Yang 2008), to mention but a few.…”

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Visualizing co-presence: discourses on transnational family connectivity in ethnic advertising

Peile

2016

Global Networks

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Transnational family members rely on a vast array of strategies to keep in touch with their loved ones scattered in distant places. In this context, providers of mobile phones and money transfer services have quickly identified international migrants as lucrative market niches, producing particular discourses on migrant connectivity through ethnic advertising. In this article, I analyse 30 of these advertisements in Spain from a qualitative and critical perspective in order to explore how they represent migrant management of family relationships at a distance. For this purpose, I articulate transnational family studies with social semiotics of visual communication. My analysis identified the predominance of promises of virtual co‐presence through at least two different strategies – which I called ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ representations of co‐presence – and its conceptual implications for both migrant and non‐migrant subjects.

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Migrant Workers and Mobile Phones: Technological, Temporal, and Spatial Simultaneity

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Labor mobility and technology diffusion: A new concept and its application to rural Southeast Asia

Labor mobility and technology diffusion: A new concept and its application to rural Southeast Asia

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Visualizing co-presence: discourses on transnational family connectivity in ethnic advertising

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