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Digital Communication Tools for Fostering Career Advancement and Sustaining Interpersonal Relationships

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Communication technologies have become essential for connecting people from different countries searching for employment and challenging careers. Highly skilled migrants keep in touch with family members through communication technologies, which have engendered intimacy based on long distance relationships. This work explores the use of communication technologies among the highly skilled, focusing both on professional and personal relationships, with an emphasis on the gender perspective. Throughout their discourses, technology appears as a fundamental tool for managing professional careers from a distance. Findings reveal both persisting patterns of traditional relationships managed by technology and the emergence of new habits and codes for enhancing personal connections. A gender approach illuminates few differences in the professional environment, in which information and communication technologies appear as neutral tools. However, in the personal sphere, although traditional family roles are being reshaped through technology, they are also partially reinforced.

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  • Ana M González Ramos, 2020. "Digital Communication Tools for Fostering Career Advancement and Sustaining Interpersonal Relationships," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 25(2), pages 184-200, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:25:y:2020:i:2:p:184-200
    DOI: 10.1177/1360780419861649
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