ICT as a cultural link between migrant Salvadorans and their country
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5377/ryr.v51i0.9843Keywords:
migrant, El Salvador, ICT, national identity, culture, hybridizationAbstract
Technologies are changing the way migrants relate to their countries. The Salvadoran Diaspora, which amounts to 2.1 million just in the United States, has used them as a way of being in touch with their families. However, web pages of radio and television channels, streaming and social networks have led to cultural hybridization processes that make the relationship with their country of origin and with the one they are living in complex. From a mixed methodology (qualitative and quantitative) that involved the use of a survey and in-depth interviews, the research seeks to understand how these processes of identity and transnationalization of Salvadorans residing in the United States are reconfigured from their consumption of digital media. The results suggest that ICTs allow migrants to expand access to Salvadoran cultural products, especially news and music, which has made them important actors in the processes of consumption, appropriation and even creation of these kind of products.
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