Diaspora: Exploring the Use of Affordances and Mobile Mediation among Migrants’ Social Connectedness

Abstract

The media perform as a way of building and binding humans all over the globe, developing new linkage and amity among folk dwelling elsewhere. Today, ICTs give a new phase for migrants’ expedition to reduce loneliness isolation, promote social interactions and enhance assimilation processes in this context, how migrants use smartphones to foster social connectedness to maintain kinship and amity. This study uses a socio-technical approach by using the concept affordances as a systematic tool to examine how existing literature discusses the relations between migrants’ lifestyle and media technology practices in various phases. Thus, the paper analyses the implications of ICTs and social connectivity among migrants to create a sense of belonging sustain the relationships and process of assimilation. It also contributes to studying migrants’ expedition and social connectedness.