The role of ICTs in the lives of foreign wives in Singapore : social exclusion and barriers of ICTs.
This research aims to understand the factors that lead to exclusion among foreign wives in Singapore and the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) plays in inclusion and empowerment. Increasingly, there has been a trend of migration through marriage in Singapore, especially bet...
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| author | See Shyang Ling, Abigail. Goh, Siew Luan. Ng, Xiao Xuan. Cheang, Rebecca Jia-Hui. |
| author2 | Arul Indrasen Chib |
| author_facet | Arul Indrasen Chib See Shyang Ling, Abigail. Goh, Siew Luan. Ng, Xiao Xuan. Cheang, Rebecca Jia-Hui. |
| author_sort | See Shyang Ling, Abigail. |
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| description | This research aims to understand the factors that lead to exclusion among foreign wives in Singapore and the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) plays in inclusion and empowerment. Increasingly, there has been a trend of migration through marriage in Singapore, especially between foreign brides and Singaporean men. Present literature show that ICTs can be a source of social support to help migrants adapt to life in their host country (Choi & Chen, 2006). We conducted in-depth interviews with 27 foreign wives in Singapore and found that although not a direct cause of empowerment, ICTs act as an agent to enhance social, political and economic inclusion. We also found out how respondents adopted ICTs differently to achieve inclusion, yet the very same benefits ICTs bring could have negative impacts too. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/487642019-12-10T14:36:33Z The role of ICTs in the lives of foreign wives in Singapore : social exclusion and barriers of ICTs. See Shyang Ling, Abigail. Goh, Siew Luan. Ng, Xiao Xuan. Cheang, Rebecca Jia-Hui. Arul Indrasen Chib Lin Tsui-Chuan, Trisha Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Chloris Jiang Qiaolei DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social problems and reform DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Intercultural communication DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social change DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior This research aims to understand the factors that lead to exclusion among foreign wives in Singapore and the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) plays in inclusion and empowerment. Increasingly, there has been a trend of migration through marriage in Singapore, especially between foreign brides and Singaporean men. Present literature show that ICTs can be a source of social support to help migrants adapt to life in their host country (Choi & Chen, 2006). We conducted in-depth interviews with 27 foreign wives in Singapore and found that although not a direct cause of empowerment, ICTs act as an agent to enhance social, political and economic inclusion. We also found out how respondents adopted ICTs differently to achieve inclusion, yet the very same benefits ICTs bring could have negative impacts too. Bachelor of Communication Studies 2012-05-09T03:37:17Z 2012-05-09T03:37:17Z 2012 2012 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48764 en Nanyang Technological University 148 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social problems and reform DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Intercultural communication DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social change DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior See Shyang Ling, Abigail. Goh, Siew Luan. Ng, Xiao Xuan. Cheang, Rebecca Jia-Hui. The role of ICTs in the lives of foreign wives in Singapore : social exclusion and barriers of ICTs. |
| title | The role of ICTs in the lives of foreign wives in Singapore : social exclusion and barriers of ICTs. |
| title_full | The role of ICTs in the lives of foreign wives in Singapore : social exclusion and barriers of ICTs. |
| title_fullStr | The role of ICTs in the lives of foreign wives in Singapore : social exclusion and barriers of ICTs. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of ICTs in the lives of foreign wives in Singapore : social exclusion and barriers of ICTs. |
| title_short | The role of ICTs in the lives of foreign wives in Singapore : social exclusion and barriers of ICTs. |
| title_sort | role of icts in the lives of foreign wives in singapore social exclusion and barriers of icts |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social problems and reform DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Intercultural communication DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social change DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior |
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