Migrants’ communication practices with ICTs: tools for facilitating migration and adaptation?

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Migrants’ communication practices with ICTs: tools for facilitating migration and adaptation?

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Migrants to a new homeland face significant adaptation and communication challenges. Information communication technologies (ICTs) are obvious tools to bridge these challenges. In this paper we investigate how migrants’ communication practices shape their use of email and the Internet as part of their settlement process, and consequently, their inclusion in and contribution to the community, economy, and society. The study used an experimental research design whereby student researchers under...

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Research Paper

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Journal article

Date created

2008

Creator

Holmes, Prue / Janson, Annick

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8331

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migrants / intercultural communication / cultural communication / computers and email / ICTs / settlement and adaptation

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