Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
Through an evocative autoethnography, I explore the practices of family reconnection through the use of communication technologies amid the experience of diaspora, both my daughter’s and my own. In doing so, the practices of “getting in touch” with each one’s grandparents during our early years situate the use of communication technologies as a way of articulating the familial relations amid the liminal sense of being between the subjectives positions dictated by laws and customs. In doing so, I grapple with the enactment of liminality through the communication practices and technological languages enmeshed in the experience of diaspora.