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Framing Transnational Family Communication: “It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far”

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This chapter outlines the frameworks surrounding ICT-based communication and their gaps—global care chains, migration chains, and sensory extensions. A new framework focusing on the mechanism that drives transnational family communication is presented: Transnational ICT-based Communication Chains (TICCs). The participants and their families develop and operate these chains within complex conditions of distance and separation. Next, the conditions of distance and separation are deconstructed, using the data together with the literature. After that, the different ways that families respond to these conditions through numerous means is proposed. These responses form a system of transnational family communication that was previously invisible and emphasizes human actions that are mediated through an ICT environment. In formulating this new model, a deeper and broader analysis of this phenomenon emerges.

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Cuban, S. (2017). Framing Transnational Family Communication: “It Feels like a Contradiction, Close and Far”. In: Transnational Family Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58644-5_2

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