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.
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Korean Visa-Status Migrants’ Transnational Everyday Lives and Media Use
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9798216241737
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter