Transient mobility and middle class identity: media and migration in Australia and Singapore
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Singapore and Australia: A Comparative Study -- Australia -- International Students -- Exchange Students -- Working Holiday Makers -- Temporary Work (Skilled) Visa -- Bridging Visas -- Dependent Visa -- Singapore -- International Students -- Workers -- Identities, Social Networks, Social Networking Sites and Entertainment Media -- Methodology and Findings -- Notes -- References -- Transient Migrants: A Profile of Transnational Adaptability -- Linguistic Adaptability -- 'Home Is Where the Heart Is', or, Here, There and Everywhere -- Home Is Many Things -- Home Is Right Here, Right Now -- 'Home Is Where the Wi-Fi Is': Veterans of Transnational Mobility and Their Powers of Adaptability -- Keeping Busy: Coping with Transience Through Hobbies and Activities -- Adapting to Life in Transience Through Social Networking Sites -- Maintaining a Social Networking Site Smorgasbord -- Translocal Experience as a Coping Strategy -- Significance of YouTube in Transience -- Implications for Policy and Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Replicating Everyday Home Life in Transience: Connecting to the Home Nation through Social Media and Entertainment Media -- Connecting to Home Through Passive Engagement with Social Media -- Disconnections with Friends in the Homeland -- Entertainment Media: Connections to Home and Disconnections to the Host Nation -- Significance of American (Hollywood) Entertainment Media -- (North) American Entertainment Media: Lessons in English Proficiency, Reminders of Home, Making New Connections in the Host Nation and Identifying with American Values -- No Real Media Connection to Host or Home Country -- Implications for Policy and Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Identity on My Mind -- A Need to Look at Identity amid Migration Trends