TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS IN THE ASIAPACIFIC

This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the AsiaPacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences While there has been work on the various ways in which internet communication technologies ICTs particularly mobile communication allows for various forms of connectivity between individuals and groups in this age of hyper transnational mobility there is a scarcity on the way digital media presents challenges creates agency and alters relationships within the broad umbrella of the transnational migration experience The authors in this collection who come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds across social cultural education and communication research present cutting edge cross and trans disciplinary analyses of transnational migration where digital media becomes a creative if not fundamental avenue for migrants to develop new strategies for dealing with their crossborder mobilities