(Im)mobile Homes - Family Life At a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media

Enriched by moving stories of transnational families, (Im)mobile Homes explores the importance of smartphones and social media for the transnational Filipino family in Australia.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter 1. Mediated (Im)mobilities


• Chapter 2. Zones of Reterritorialized Domesticity: 'It's Like Leaving Messages on the Fridge'


• Chapter 3. Homeland (Dis)connections: 'It's Like I'm in the Philippines'


• Chapter 4. Restaging Interrupted Rituals: 'It's As If They're Beside Me'


• Chapter 5. Mobile (Un)caring at a Distance: 'You Really Love Us My Son'


• Chapter 6. Bittersweet Festivity: 'We're Not Only Here but We're Also There in Spirit'


• Chapter 7. Digital Lifeline in Turbulent Times: 'As Long as They're Okay, I'm Okay'


• 8. An (Im)mobile Home and Beyond


• Methodological Appendix

About the author

Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto is Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. He is also a member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University. His research agenda locates the potentialities and paradoxes nestled in the conduct of personal, familial, and social life at a distance via an ecology of mobile technologies and online platforms.

Summary

Enriched by moving stories of transnational families, (Im)mobile Homes explores the importance of smartphones and social media for the transnational Filipino family in Australia.

Additional text

Full of resonating stories–from migrant parents torn apart from their children to family grudges that burrowed deep through the cracks of our modern digital communication—this is a powerful book about the everyday struggles of transnational families. Finely observed about the ambivalent possibilities for mediated connection in otherwise impossible situations, Earvin Cabalquinto's ethnography is a must-read for scholars, community organizers, tech designers, and policymakers interested in the well-being of economic migrants.

Product details

• Authors: Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles B. (Lecturer in Commun Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles B. (Lecturer in Communication Cabalquinto
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780197524831
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752483-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Mobile Communication; STUDIES IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SERIES
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, HISTORY / Oceania, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Communication Studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Australasian & Pacific history, Australasian and Pacific history