Multiple Dimensions of Mediatised Translocal Social Practices. A Cast Study of Domestic Migrants in Bangladesh

Autor(en)

Harald Sterly, Patrick Sakdapolrak

Abstrakt

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(en)

Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung

Journal

Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft

Band

162

Seiten

369-395

Anzahl der Seiten

27

ISSN

0029-9138

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1553/moegg162s369

Publikationsdatum

2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

507002 Bevölkerungsgeographie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Geography, Planning and Development, Earth-Surface Processes

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/16a40ac2-567e-488f-a06c-8acdb791964d