Love relationships, texting and mobility : an ethnography of cell phone use in intimate relationships among labour migrants in Cape Town

Magister Artium - MA === This thesis explores the different ways in which labour migrants in contemporary South Africa make use of cell phones in their daily lives to maintain their love relationships. I start by tracing the history of labour migration and show how the gradual change of migration ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Motau, Marjorie Disebo
Other Authors: Becker, Heike
Language:en
Published: University of the Western Cape 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3971