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Mobile Communication and Low-Skilled Migrants’ Acculturation to Cosmopolitan Singapore

Mobile Communication and Low-Skilled Migrants’ Acculturation to Cosmopolitan Singapore
Author: Rajiv George Aricat;Rich Ling
Price: $111.00
ISBN-10: 149855251X
ISBN-13: 9781498552516
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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.