In just a decade, between 2005 and 2015, mobile phone usage has become virtually ubiquitous in Bangladesh, reaching almost every village and corner of the country. Especially for the millions of migrant workers, this has lead to an unprecedented level of connectivity, sometimes dramatically changing the lives of migrants and their relatives and friends at places of origin. This study investigates how the advent of this mediated form of communication interacts with changes in the translocal practices and social structure of rural-to-urban migrants and their rural household members. The conceptual framework is based on position-practice relations, affordances and structuration theory. With a mixed-methods approach, the mediatization of communication is traced through changing practices, and the influences on social relations and the way how space and places are constituted: the simultaneity, translocality and individuality that mobile communication affords, is altering both local and translocal practices. Notable processes are the “quotidianization” of hence occasional and exceptional inter- and transactions over distance, and a re-regionalization of communicative practices―changes where interactions regularly “take place”. With these and other shifts, the mediatization of communication leads to considerable changes in the spatio-temporal fabric of migrants' local and translocal social space in Bangladesh
