ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the lives of migrants and how they have been transformed by the availability of ubiquitous access to mobile phones and the Internet in their new place of residence. It shows the global access to mobile phones and the Internet, has transformed the relationships between migrants and their left-behind families and friends, as well as with their commercial and business links. The chapter focuses on theoretical approaches to migration and leads into an overview of the development of various Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) explores from the perspective of mobility and migration. The effect of migrants on modern society continues to spread; Castells places the migrant worker as central to the development of the new networked society in which mobile phones and the Internet particularly play key enabling roles. The complexities of combining mobility, multimodal communications, and migration are made more complex by the different cultural influences that can affect the adoption of the Internet and mobile phones.
