Facebook : building an "imagined community" for foreign domestic workers.

• Main Author: Sun, Natalie.
• Other Authors: Sulfikar Amir
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51673
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Foreign Domestic Workers (FDWs) experience a severe decline in their social lives when they travel to their host country for work. Previously, FDWs had to contend with the use of letter-writing, phone calls from land-lines, and more recently, the use of mobile phones to contact their families. With...