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

dc.contributor.advisorBecker, Heike
dc.contributor.authorMotau, Marjorie Disebo
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-13T06:59:17Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-20T12:21:15Z
dc.date.available2015-02-13T06:59:17Z
dc.date.available2024-03-20T12:21:15Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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 has played a role in the assertion of labour migrants in their communities in Cape Town. I look specifically into the use of cell phone by Setswana and Sesotho speaking migrants in Delft, Thornton, Brackenfell and Gugulethu. While the focus of the research is on the role of cell phones in maintaining love relationships between migrants and the partners they left behind ?at home?, I also show how the negotiation of the cell phone in the social lives of migrants helps build wider social networks. The value of the functions of the cell phone through employed communication patterns that encourage social relations and interactions are also the focus of this thesis.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9437
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectEthnographyen_US
dc.subjectCell phonesen_US
dc.subjectLove relationshipsen_US
dc.subjectSextingen_US
dc.subjectDistanceen_US
dc.subjectIntimacyen_US
dc.subjectMarginalityen_US
dc.subjectMobilityen_US
dc.subjectLabour migrantsen_US
dc.subjectCape Townen_US
dc.titleLove relationships, texting and mobility : an ethnography of cell phone use in intimate relationships among labour migrants in Cape Townen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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