Impact of mobile phone on the acculturation of South Asian migrant workers in Singapore

• Main Author: Rajiv George Aricat
• Other Authors: Richard Seyler Ling
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Organizational communication; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Intercultural communication; DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The study examines how migrants’ communication over mobile phone as well as their appropriation of the technology affects their acculturation in host society. A pluralistic-typological approach towards acculturation helps understand the phenomenon as assimilation, integration, marginalization and se...