Migrant workers and mobile phones: Technological, temporal, and spatial simultaneity

The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 39-65

  Paragas, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

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EID: 85075657201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315134499-3     Document Type: Chapter

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