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

Gomes, Catherine

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2017-01-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789811016387

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-1639-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 267