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Media Studies | Communication and Media Studies | Migrant Cultural Studies |
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-12-2014
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-06-2015
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2020
DOI: 10.1386/TJTM_00014_1
Abstract: The literature on transnational migrations tells us that new migrants often look for points of similarity and familiarity with people in destination countries. Whether they intend to settle permanently or if they are transient and temporary, new migrants whatever their histories (e.g., as forced, lifestyle, economic, worker and study migrants) look to create connections with people in destination countries. These connections allow migrants to feel a sense of belonging through established or new community networks that anchor them in their adopted/host country. Moreover, these connections provide practical benefit in terms of allowing migrants to access sources of support (e.g., emotional) and information that are useful in navigating everyday life in the new country. Often, the connections that migrants make are with fellow migrants who are from the same country of origin or migrants from elsewhere primarily because of their shared migration experience. This shared migration experience though is subject to variables such as socio-economic class, education levels, religious affiliation and gender, or a combination of these, just to name a few. For migrants, connecting with people who they identify and recognize as fellow migrant actors, in other words, is a common, if not, instinctual occurrence for migrant belonging-making. While this article acknowledges the significance of the identity-migrant nexus by referring to two separate research projects conducted in Australia involving Latin American participants as a case study, it observes that migrants may also seek out those who they perceive to be fellow co-national/co-ethnic migrants through conventional or perceived visual and cultural markers.
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 18-08-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-04-2013
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 30-12-2016
Publisher: Ateneo de Manila University
Date: 21-09-2015
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 30-12-2016
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 30-12-2016
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 30-12-2016
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 30-12-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-04-2022
DOI: 10.1177/10283153221095163
Abstract: The overwhelming importance of the digitalization of international education stems from the migration of student activities from the physical to the digital c us, which has been taking place over the past three decades. Many new and exciting learning opportunities have become possible for staff and students in higher education institutions. However, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, online delivery became the sole mode of education in many education institutions across the world. This has hastened the development of dynamic digital c uses and it is now very common to see digital experiences complementing face-to-face engagements between students, teachers, researchers and administrators. This special issue explores the impact of the emergence of digital c uses on international education and those seeking to harness relevant tools to improve the quality and impact of their work in this field. Contributing authors describe a range of ways in which international education is evolving and developing due to mass digitalization. This curated collection provides an overview of current practices driving the sector forward in the digital space and sets an agenda for future research in the digitalization of international education.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-09-2018
Abstract: Singapore is host to approximately 1.7 million transient migrants who either work or study in the city-state. While there has been extensive research on the conditions of low skilled or unskilled workers, little has been written about the experiences of the educated and middle class transnationally mobile workers and students and how they make a home for themselves in the city-state. Through in-depth interviews with 86 international students and educated transnationally mobile workers on their self-perceived identities, social networks, concepts of home, and media and communication use, this article looks at the strategies used by ‘foreign talent’ migrants to feel at home in Singapore. It is observed that while foreign talent migrants develop a combination of creative strategies in order to make Singapore ‘a home away from home’, being transient negatively affects their relationship with Singaporeans. The study also finds that while transient migrants develop close relationships with co-nationals as a strategy for transience, they also maintain/develop class structures while overseas. In other words, international students and white collar workers do not associate with co-nationals who are in low skilled or unskilled work. Drawing on the concept that transient migrants use their self-perceived identities to negotiate everyday life, this article argues that foreign talent migrants use their self-perceived identities to create emerging social and cultural spaces through their versions of reconstructions of home and by their (non)interactions with co-nationals and Singaporeans. In doing so, this article specifically moves away from the literature on time and temporalities which situates the temporary migrant as facing challenges overseas due to the break in their expected life course and connections to home, highlighting instead that transient migrants see their temporality not as a disruption bur rather part of their evolving life course.
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 04-2015
Abstract: Work on the sociocultural aspects of international students tends to largely focus on their experiences within the host country. Research points to the desire of these transient migrants to stay in the host nation through permanent residency rather than return immediately to the homeland once they graduate. While studies in Australia on the sociocultural experiences of international students are necessarily localized and accurate in their assessment of the intentional trajectory of these students post-graduation, my study suggests that a new pattern is emerging that shifts beyond home-host nation connections. Although international students desire Australian permanent residence, they do not necessarily want to remain in Australia. Likewise, neither do they seek to immediately return to their home nations. Through interviews with 60 international students in Melbourne, my research reveals that these students hold aspirations for transnational mobility with ambitions to live and work in the big cities of Europe, North America and Asia, and with plans to return to the home nation eventually or possibly in the future. Their aspirational mobility is encouraged by their experiences in Australia in terms of their ability to form friendship networks with fellow international students rather than with locals, and their sense of belonging to the home nation through rapid developments in communication and media technologies.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-02-2023
DOI: 10.1111/ROPR.12543
Abstract: In this article, we examine the politics of on‐demand food delivery using insights from the theory of social construction and policy design. On‐demand food delivery is a service built on algorithm‐based technology known for its precarity and physical risks for couriers. We compare how the on‐demand food delivery sector is regulated and its observable effects in two Asia‐Pacific cities with contrasting food courier profiles: Melbourne, Australia (international students), and Singapore (citizens, permanent residents). We show how the social construction of food couriers in other policy subsystems (migration, higher education, citizenship) affects debates of their fair treatment in the on‐demand food delivery sector. By interrogating the politics of digitally enabled versions of reality, we argue for embracing a design perspective to identify how reforms could be introduced in change‐resistant sectors.
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Date: 2008
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9746-1.CH015
Abstract: For more than a decade Singapore has been investing heavily in establishing itself as a rising star in the competitive international education market that services students from the region and elsewhere. Singapore is an attractive destination for international students because of scholarship opportunities, a high standard of living and job opportunities post-graduation. Moreover Singapore has geographical and cultural proximity for students coming from Asia while being ‘Western' enough to attract those from beyond the region. By interviewing 57 international students about their sense of belonging in Singapore, impressions of Singapore and the social networks they developed in the island-state, this chapter suggests that despite a welcoming local government, seeming cultural similarities to the host nation, substantial periods of time studying in Singapore and intentions of taking up permanent residence, international students not only have difficulties adapting to Singapore society but create their own form of agency that allows them to navigate their everyday life in transience.
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-08-2022
Publisher: STAR Scholars Network
Date: 19-07-2021
Abstract: The wellbeing of higher degree research (HDR) students, or postgraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic has been of concern. In Australia, international students have queued for food parcels, while headlines report stark drops in international enrolments and the financial bottom line of universities. We undertook a pilot study using ethnographic interview methods to understand the lived experiences of current international and domestic HDR students at an Australian university in Melbourne, from June to August 2020 (n=26). In this paper, we discuss domestic and international students’ experiences during the pandemic. International HDR students faced similar challenges to domestic students, but experienced further stressors as temporary migrants. We discuss their experiences in relation to resilience, understood as a relational and collective quality. We suggest that institutions develop policies and programmes to address resilience and build students’ sense of belonging and connection, informed by how students cope with challenges such as COVID-19.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
Publisher: EJournal Publishing
Date: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-12-2017
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 30-12-2016
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 30-12-2016
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 30-12-2016
Start Date: 2013
End Date: 03-2016
Amount: $345,060.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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