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(Im)mobile Homes by Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto

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(Im)mobile Homes by Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
(Im)mobile Homes by Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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(Im)mobile Homes by Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto

Current price: $59.03
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The home has been on the forefront of rapid economic, political, social, and technological transformations for many individuals and families across the world. As a country reliant on the exportation of human labor to sustain its national economy, the Philippines exemplifies a valuable casestudy of the impacts of a globalized and networked society on the everyday dynamics of a transnational family arrangement. Despite ranking among the heaviest Internet users in the world, Filipino citizens are often left with no choice but to navigate digital and transnational environmentsorchestrated by the uneven distribution of both national and international resources and opportunities.(Im)mobile Homes investigates the role of smartphones, social media channels, and various mobile applications in forging and sustaining intimate ties among dispersed Filipino family members. Examining the digital lifeworlds of transnational Filipino family in Australia, this volume draws on richethnographic study to explore the benefits of digital communication as well as the tensions enabled by the influences of socio-cultural structures, socio-economic conditions, technological affordances, and institutional policies and processes on mobile practices. It portrays the physicallydistributed yet virtually connected nature of the transnational Filipino family through diverse contexts, such as observing family rituals, performing intimate care, and managing crises, and foregrounds their unique strategies in addressing the interruptions of connecting at a distance. Ultimately, this volume underscores how mobile practices of the transnational Filipino family negotiate the pre-existing and broader structural systems that (re)produce marginalization in a digital and global era. Enriched by moving stories of transnational families, (Im)mobile Homes offers a critical lens towards interrogating the possibilities and politics of a home from afar in the digital era. | (Im)mobile Homes by Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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