ABSTRACT
Considering their development over time, the practices of media usage have played an essential role in migration contexts since well before the times of satellite Televisión and the Internet. They have always been used in making preparations for changes of residence, in building social networks, in sustaining social relationships across places of origin and migrants’ destinations, in applying political influence on the nation-state to which migrants feel they belong and in producing in the first place a collective imagination of the nation. Only the media formats and density of communications have continued to develop and change over time.
