Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific

Brenda S. A. Yeoh is a Professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Catherine Gomes is an Associate Professor at the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University.

List of Figures / Acknowledgements/ Introduction/ PART 1. THE NEW CHALLENGES DIGITAL MEDIA CREATES IN UNDERSTANDING THE TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION EXPERIENCE / 1. Navigating Online Down Under: International Students’ Digital Journeys in Australia by Shanton Chang, Catherine Gomes and Fran Martin / 2. Bridging Parental Expectations and Children’s Aspirations: Creative Strategies in Migrant Students’ Mediated Communication with their Left-behind Families by Becky Pham and Sun Sun Lim / PART 2. NEW FORMS OF AGENCY DIGITAL MEDIA FACILITATES / 3. Chapter 3: Fight Back through Facebook: Retaliating against Local Gossip and Creating New Identities by Monika Winarnita and Nicholas Herriman / 4. Indian Migrants and their Transnational Families: Communication across Time and Borders by Supriya Singh / 5. A Sense of Belonging: Social Media Use of Latin American migrants in Australia by Glenda Mejía, Trinidad Espinosa Abascal and Val Colic-Peisker / PART 3. THE EXPERIENCES OF DIGITAL MEDIA TO ALTER RELATIONSHIPS IN THE TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION EXPERIENCE / 6. Social Media and the Refugee Experience: Young People Negotiating Displacement in an Age of Connectivity by Raelene Wilding and Sandra Gifford / 7. Beyond Emoji Play: Paralinguistics and Intergenerational Care-at-Distance by Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Heather Horst, Jolynna Sinanan, Kana Ohashi, Fumi Kato and Baohua Zhou / 8. Migrant Mothers and Left-Behind Families: The Rituals of Communication and the Reconstitution of Familyhood Across Transnational Space and Time by Kristel A. Acedera, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Maruja M.B. Asis / 9. Perth Calling: Media, Mobility and Imaginaries by Susan Leong / Conclusion/ Contributors