Cabañes, Jason Vincent. 2019. Information and communication technologies and migrant intimacies: The case of Punjabi youth in Manila. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(9), pp. 1650-1666. ISSN 1369-183X [Article]

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This article examines how South–South migrants use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in negotiating their encounters with traditional cultural imaginaries of intimacy. It focuses on second-generation Punjabi Indian youth in the Philippine capital of Manila. Through an ethnographic approach, it unpacks how these migrants harness technologies to steer through two particular ideals about the end-goal of intimate relationships: the Punjabi notion of arranged marriage and the Filipino notion of love marriage. I characterise how the young Punjabis use ICTs to enact what I call a ‘temporarily resolution’ to their migrant double consciousness about intimacy. I also describe how this temporary resolution continues to be entwined with the wider dynamics of multicultural relations in the Philippines. Ultimately, I aim to better understand the role of ICTs in migrant intimacies, especially within the realities of multiculturalism in a postcolonial city in the Global South.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1453790
Additional Information:	"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 25 March 2018, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1453790. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited."
Keywords:	Intimacy, ICTs, migrant youth, multiculturalism, postcolonial city
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 12 March 2018 Accepted 25 March 2018 Published Online 2019 Published
Item ID:	36891
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2024 11:05
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2024 16:55
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36891

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