Chapter 9a: Migrant Workers and Mobile Communication in Pandemic Times
In this 2017 article, we examined the mobile communication practices of low-skilled South Asian male migrant workers living and working in Singapore. In a global city where low-wage migrant workers are paradoxically admitted for their labour but excluded in local society, these migrants have turned to mobile phones as a way of dealing with their marginalised position in Singapore…
Reflections on Chib, A. and Aricat, R. G. (2017). Belonging and communicating in a bounded cosmopolitanism: The role of mobile phones in the integration of transnational migrants in Singapore, Inf. Commun. Soc., Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 482–496. DOI:10.1080/136 9118X.2016.1168470. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.