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Cars and Schools and Heart Is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women

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This chapter focuses on the different backgrounds, situations, and trajectories of the participants, which influenced their technological affordances and, subsequently, their ICT-based communicative practices. I show that the participants divided neatly into two groups that reflected their different patterned responses to the distance and separation of family migration. Two distinct groups emerge within the sample with social class as a major factor, those who would be considered highly skilled and those with low skills. Their family backgrounds produced in them different levels of capital—human, social, and cultural—which further affected their transnational ICT-based communication within their networks. Resultantly, the two groups bonded and bridged differently within their networks.

1Parts of this chapter incorporate some concepts from: Cuban, S (2016) A stratified analysis of the ICT-based communicative practices and networks of migrant women. Migration and Development, 5 (3) (2016), 1–18.

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Cuban, S. (2017). Cars and Schools and Heart Is in Canada: Divergent Communication Pathways of Immigrant Women. In: Transnational Family Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58644-5_4

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