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Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity: Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore
Catherine Gomes
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Description for Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity: Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore
Hardback. Num Pages: 267 pages, 23 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMS; 1MBF; JFD; JFFN; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Condition
New
Number of Pages
267
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811016387
SKU
V9789811016387
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Catherine Gomes
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 ... Read more
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