Multiple Dimensions of Mediatised Translocal Social Practices. A Cast Study of Domestic Migrants in Bangladesh
- Author(s)
- Harald Sterly, Patrick Sakdapolrak
- Abstract
In the past decades, migration and translocal forms of living, including the spatial separation of households and families, have become everyday reality for almost a billion people. At the same time, mobile information and communication technologies, and especially mobile phones, have spread rapidly and are now accessible for many, even in poorer contexts in the Global South. The article combines practice-theory with approaches from media studies to examine how these two large themes intersect. It shows how the adoption of mobile phones by rural-to-urban labour migrants in Bangladesh is changing their translocal social practices, discusses key reasons for these changes, and their implications for translocal livelihoods and lives.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- Journal
- Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft
- Volume
- 162
- Pages
- 369-395
- No. of pages
- 27
- ISSN
- 0029-9138
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1553/moegg162s369
- Publication date
- 2020
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507002 Population geography
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development, Earth-Surface Processes
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/16a40ac2-567e-488f-a06c-8acdb791964d