‘Without technology we’d be very stuck’: Ageing migrants’ differential (im)mobile practices during a lockdown

Author:

Cabalquinto Earvin1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Deakin University, Australia

Abstract

Ubiquitous mobile communication technologies have played an integral role in the way people navigated forced physical immobilities produced through restrictive measures during a pandemic. This paper critically investigates how 15 ageing people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Victoria, Australia used a range of digital communication technologies and online platforms to cope during the 2020 lockdown. The study deploys the mobilities lens (Urry, 2007) in analysing a data set based on conducting remote and in-depth interviewing. It foregrounds how everyday and multi-scalar digital behaviours afford cultural and social connectedness, reflecting diverse forms of care practices. However, forced immobile practices emerged as shaped by disproportionate network capital. In sum, this study puts forward a nuanced perspective in understanding the scales and textures of (im)mobile practices of ageing migrants during a lockdown in Australia.

Funder

Alfred Deakin Institute Research Pilot Grant

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Communication,Cultural Studies

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