As an instrument for connecting people near and far, the cell phone is crucially related to mobility, that is, spatial mobility in particular migration. Irrespective of the distance, one can still stay connected with kith and kin back home through the cell phone. In this way the feeling of absence is mitigated. Though important, staying connected does not seem to be the only way in which the cell is related to or impacts on migration/migrants. What, for instance, is the relationship between the cell phone and the migrants’ survival strategies. Put differently, is the cell phone an asset or a liability to the migrants in the host society?
This study considers the impact and appropriation of the mobile phone by the Nigerian immigrants in Anglophone Cameroon. The thrust of the argument is that the cell phone is an indispensable assert to the Nigerian migrants in Anglophone Cameroon. They appropriate the cell phone in solving a number of migrant-related problems.
As an instrument for connecting people near and far, the cell phone is crucially related to mobility, that is, spatial mobility in particular migration. Irrespective of the distance, one can still stay connected with kith and kin back home through the cell phone. In this way the feeling of absence is mitigated. Though important, staying connected does not seem to be the only way in which the cell is related to or impacts on migration/migrants. What, for instance, is the relationship between the cell phone and the migrants’ survival strategies. Put differently, is the cell phone an asset or a liability to the migrants in the host society?
This study considers the impact and appropriation of the mobile phone by the Nigerian immigrants in Anglophone Cameroon. The thrust of the argument is that the cell phone is an indispensable assert to the Nigerian migrants in Anglophone Cameroon. They appropriate the cell phone in solving a number of migrant-related problems.
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