Migrant mothering and mobile phones : negotiations of transnational identity

• Main Authors: Chib, Arul, Malik, Shelly, Aricat, Rajiv George, Siti Zubeidah Kadir
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Dialectic; Identity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142958
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Transnational mothers working in foreign countries face the challenges of providing “intensive” mothering to their children from a distance, and risk being subject to the “deviancy” discourse of mothering. This paper investigates the role of mobile phone usage, via voice, text messages, and social n...