Rivenburgh, NancyFesenmaier, Margaret Anna2020-02-042020-02-042020-02-042019Fesenmaier_washington_0250E_20851.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/45158Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2019This study investigates reported migrant family communication. It starts by identifying the four key characteristics that combine to distinguish migrant families from other family types: 1) the condition of distance between family members; 2) the reliance on technology to communicate with family; 3) the reliance on discourse for family interaction; and 4) the important role of remittances in migrant family interaction. Then, drawing on in-depth interviews with migrants living in Seattle, WA (N = 43), the study identifies and elaborates on the specific communicative behaviors migrants reported they employ that manage and navigate family communication given each of these characteristics. Participants report engaging in a unique combination of technological, transactional, and functional behaviors that, this study argues, enact a sense of family across distance. In the end, this study contributes to our understanding of the complexity of family communication behaviors of migrants in the United States.application/pdfen-USCC BY-NC-SAEnacting FamilyICTsMigrant CommunicationMigrant FamilyRemittancesTransnationalismCommunicationCommunicationsThesis