This book is a socially situated exploration of South Asian migrants in Singapore that critically examines migrants' negotiations of cultural identity, power, and friendship networks in mediated mobile phone spaces.

Rajiv Aricat is research fellow at the School of Social Sciences, NTU, Singapore.
Rich Ling is Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and adjunct at the University of Michigan.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Labor Migration and ICT
Chapter 3. Social Science of Technology Appropriation and Impact
Chapter 4. Acculturation and Mobile Communication
Chapter 5. Methods
Chapter 6. Mobile Phone Appropriation
Chapter 7. Acculturation and Adaptation
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Appendixes
References
About the Author