Crafting love: Letters and cassette tapes in transnational Filipino family communication

South East Asia Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-272

  Madianou, Mirca ^a   Miller, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Materiality; Media; Migration; The Philippines; Transnational families

Indexed keywords

ASIAN IMMIGRANT; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LABOR MIGRATION; MEDIA ROLE; MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; SOCIAL HISTORY;

CAMBRIDGE; CAMBRIDGESHIRE; ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79959434090     PISSN: 0967828X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/sear.2011.0043     Document Type: Article

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