Full Description
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.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Labor Migration and ICT
Chapter 3. Social Science of Technology Appropriation and Impact
Chapter 4. Acculturation and Mobile Communication
Chapter 5. Methods
Chapter 6. Mobile Phone Appropriation
Chapter 7. Acculturation and Adaptation
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Appendixes
References
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