Research Catalog

Title

Transnational migrations in the Asia-Pacific : transformative experiences in the age of digital media / edited by Catherine Gomes and Brenda S. A. Yeoh.

Publication

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gomes, Catherine Jean
• Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

Description

xxv, 216 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book uses digital ethnography to study critically the impact of digital media on transnational migrations, using case studies on diverse topics including transient migrants, gender and religion, ethnic migrants, refugees, intergenerational relationships, and transnational relationships across the borders of space and time"--

Series Statement

Media, culture and communication in Asia-Pacific societies

Uniform Title

Media, culture and communication in Asia-Pacific societies.

Alternative Title

Transnational migrations in the Asia Pacific

Subjects

• Pacific Area
• Southeast Asia
• Transnationalism
• Digital media > Social aspects > Southeast Asia
• Pacific Area > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
• Southeast Asia > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
• Digital media > Social aspects > Pacific Area
• Emigration and immigration > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Navigating online down under : international students' digital journeys in Australia / Shanton Chang, Catherine Gomes and Fran Martin -- Bridging parental expectations and children's aspirations : creative strategies in migrant students' mediated communication with their left-behind families / Becky Pham and Sun Sun Lim -- Fight back through Facebook : retaliating against local gossip and creating new identities / Monika Winarnita and Nicholas Herriman -- Indian migrants and their transnational families : communication across time and borders / Supriya Singh -- A sense of belonging : social media use of Latin American migrants in Australia / Glenda Mejía, Trinidad Espinosa Abascal and Val Colic-Peisker -- Social media and the refugee experience : young people negotiating displacement in an age of connectivity / Raelene Wilding and Sandra Gifford -- Beyond emoji play : paralinguistics and intergenerational care-at-distance / Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Heather Horst, Jolynna Sinanan, Kana Ohashi, Fumi Kato and Baohua Zhou -- Migrant mothers and left-behind families : the rituals of communication and the reconstitution of familyhood across transnational space and time / Kristel A. Acedera, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Maruja M.B. Asis -- Perth calling : media, mobility and imaginaries / Susan Leong.

Call Number

JFE 18-9527

ISBN

• 9781786605535
• 1786605538

LCCN

• 2018011842
• 40028624171

OCLC

1048659370

Title

Transnational migrations in the Asia-Pacific : transformative experiences in the age of digital media / edited by Catherine Gomes and Brenda S. A. Yeoh.

Publisher

London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Media, culture and communication in Asia-Pacific societies

Media, culture and communication in Asia-Pacific societies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gomes, Catherine Jean, editor.

Yeoh, Brenda S. A., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Transnational migrations in the Asia-Pacific Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] 9781786605542 (DLC) 2018038645

Other Standard Identifier

40028624171

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9527