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Cheap calls: the social glue of migrant transnationalism

Vertovec, Steven·2004·Global Networks
DOI 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2004.00088.x
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Abstract Although globalization has usually been associated with advanced communications technology, arguably nothing has facilitated global linkage more than the boom in ordinary, cheap international telephone calls. Low‐cost calls serve as a kind of social glue connecting small‐scale social formations across the globe. In this article I present recent data on the rapid growth and diffusion of telephone traffic and describe the proliferation of prepaid phonecards. Second, I outline the commercial, social and geographical ramifications of this explosion in transnational communication.

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  • New information and communication technologies, particularly mobile phones and the internet, have increased possibilities for migrants and non-migrants to engage in each other's lives, facilitating active re-creation of family ties and emotional bonds across borders.

    “New information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly mobile phones (Vertovec 2004) and the internet (Madianou 2012;Wilding 2006), have increased the possibilities for migrants and non-migrants to engage in each other's lives, facilitating the active re-creation of family ties and emotional bonds across borders (Baldassar 2007).”

    From Navigating transnational childcare relationships: migrant parents and their children's caregivers in the origin country (2017) · cites this paper as Vertovec 2004

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Authors
Vertovec, S.
Affiliations
University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Vertovec, Steven
ORCID
Vertovec, Steven
Venue
Global Networks
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2004-03-23
Volume
4
Issue
2
Pages
219-224
ISSN
  • 1470-2266 (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-0374
DOI
10.1111/j.1471-0374.2004.00088.x
OpenAlex
W2008777370
Cited by
577
References
9
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 60 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 41 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 34 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 32 · 2013: 37 · 2012: 38
FWCI
26.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • Global Networks (publishedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › ICT Impact and Policies
Keywords
migrant transnationalism, transnational communication, globalization, telephone traffic, social networks, low-cost communication

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