Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity : Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore

This project offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in Asia 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 v...

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Main Author Gomes, Catherine (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Communication.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Emigration and immigration.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9789811016394
DOI10.1007/978-981-10-1639-4
Physical DescriptionXI, 267 p. 23 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Transient Migrants: A Profile of Transnational Adaptability
  • Chapter 2: Replicating everyday home life in transience: Connecting to the home nation through social media and entertainment media
  • Chapter 3: Identity on my Mind
  • Chapter 4: The Significance of home nation identities in transience
  • Chapter 5: Connections and Disconnections: Forming Parallel Societies in Transience
  • Chapter 6: A Culture of Mobility: Christianity
  • Chapter 7: Globetrotting: Aspirations for Transnational Mobility.

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