Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 457-470

  Madianou, Mirca ^a   Miller, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Migration; Mobile phones; Parenting; Philippines; Separation; Transnational families; UK

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957871013     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810393903     Document Type: Article

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