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This chapter summarizes the arguments of the book and discusses the politics and policies undergirding transnational family communication with questions this study brings up for further investigation. The constraints women immigrants experience in communicating with their transnational families are summarized with relation to the model to focus on global equity issues. ICTs have to be viewed first in the migratory context. Yet the ICTs proved to be problematic mechanisms for transnational family communication especially for women. Next, the communication infrastructures proved to be highly inequitable. Finally, the participants’ education levels, which are normally not accounted for in studies, appeared to be important proxies of their ICT access and use. The chapter ends with a discussion about the problematic aspects of ICT-based transnational family communication.
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Cuban, S. (2017). Considering Immigrant Women and Equitable Communication. In: Transnational Family Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58644-5_7
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