Mediatized Transient Migrants

Korean Visa-Status Migrants’ Transnational Everyday Lives and Media Use

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Mediatized Transient Migrants: Korean Visa-Status Migrants’ Transnational Everyday Lives and Media Use examines the role of digital media in Korean visa-status migrants’ everyday lives in terms of their senses of home, belonging, and identity. Based on personal interviews with 40 migrants (temporary workers, academic students, and their dependents) living in Austin, Texas, Claire Shinhea Lee argues that the mundane use of homeland media brought by new media technology allows these migrants to make, connect to, and complicate home in their transnational space.Through the theoretical framework of mediatization and transnationalism, Lee links a transnational polymedia environment and emerging digital culture (cord-cutting and algorithmic culture) to interrogate mobility and migration in the globalization era. The book reveals not only the multi-positionality within the transient migration but also the gendered structure of the visa system.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-11-26
Mått158 x 238 x 17 mm
Vikt413 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieKorean Communities across the World
Antal sidor170
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498598491

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Chapter One: From Diasporic Audience Studies to Digital Migration StudiesChapter Two: Searching for Ontological Security in a Transnational SpaceChapter Three: Making Home Through Transnational Cord-Cutting PracticeChapter Four: Connecting Home Through Smartphone and Algorithm CultureChapter Five: Complicating Home through Mediatization and TransnationalismChapter Six: Gendered Visa? Dependent Women’s Media and Home-Making

Claire Shinhea Lee's "Mediatized Transient Migrants: Korean Visa-Status Migrants' Transnational Everyday LIves and Media Use" provides an engaging analysis of the role and meaning of digital media in transnational lives. This book explores how temporary-visa-status migrants engage with digital media to connect with their homeland and negotiate their transnational everyday lives. Overall, it's compelling, empirical analysis and effective theoretical framwork make this book a useful addition to media, migration studies and Asian studies.