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- Addresses the transient migration experience through the lens of communication and entertainment media
- Examines the impact of technology on the experience of migration
- Looks at the upwardly mobile middle class transient migrants studying and working in two of the Asia-Pacific’s most desirable transient migration destinations – Australia and Singapore
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of communication and entertainment media. It examines the role played by digital technologies and uncovers how the combined wider field of entertainment media (films, television shows and music) are vital and helpful platforms that positively aid migrants through self and communal empowerment. This book specifically looks at the upwardly mobile middle class transient migrants studying and working in two of the Asia-Pacific’s most desirable transient migration destinations – Australia and Singapore – providing a cutting edge study of the identities transient migrants create and maintain while overseas and the strategies they use to cope with life in transience.
Authors and Affiliations
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RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Catherine Gomes
About the author
Catherine Gomes is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne and recently completed an Australian Research Council DECRA (Discovery Early Career Research Award) fellowship. Her work covers migration, transnationalism and diasporas, particularly transient migration in Australia and Singapore with special interest in international students, their well-being, their social networks and their media and communication use. Catherine is founding editor of Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (Intellect Books).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity
Book Subtitle: Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore
Authors: Catherine Gomes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1639-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1638-7Published: 06 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9409-5Published: 30 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1639-4Published: 28 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 267
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Media and Communication, Social Structure, Social Inequality