Mobile Communication and Low-Skilled Migrants’ Acculturation to Cosmopolitan Singapore
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Acculturation Typology
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Author_Rich Ling
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Bangladesh
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Cell Phones
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Cultural Adaptation
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Immigration Policy
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Labor Migrants
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Migrant Acculturation
Mobile Communication
Mobile Phone Appropriation
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Singapore
Social Constructivism
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South Asian Studies
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- ISBN 9781498552509
- Weight: 535g
- Dimensions: 163 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 2018
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Mobile Communication and Low-Skilled Migrants’ Acculturation to Cosmopolitan Singapore examines the role of mobile communication in the acculturation of South Asian labor migrants to Singapore, adopting a mobile phone appropriation model and following a pluralistic-typological approach. While presenting data from a questionnaire survey and interviews with low-skilled migrants from Bangladesh and India in Singapore, it explores how their specific social conditions, including their transient status and low entitlements in their host country, influenced their mobile phone appropriation. It considers the links these migrants established and retained with their countries of origin and residence to identify several types of appropriation and acculturation types among the various populations.
Rajiv Aricat is research fellow at the School of Social Sciences, NTU, Singapore.
Rich Ling is Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and adjunct at the University of Michigan.
