Migration, Media, and Global-Local Spaces

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Esther Chin

   Pages 1-9

3. Migration, Media, and Social Space

   • Esther Chin

   Pages 11-40

4. Relational Glocalities

   • Esther Chin

   Pages 41-72

5. Singaporean Cultures of Migration and Media

   • Esther Chin

   Pages 73-87

6. Geographies

   • Esther Chin

   Pages 89-114

7. Cartographies

   • Esther Chin

   Pages 115-155

8. Glocal Cosmopolitanism

   • Esther Chin

   Pages 157-173

9. Back Matter

   Pages 175-234

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This book explores how we define our social spaces in a world of globalization, cultural diversity, and media convergence. It invites us to consider how each of us relates to multiple people and places worldwide through migration and media. Critiquing our focus on nation, state, and particular countries of origin and settlement, this book offers a new conceptual approach to study contemporary migration and media. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Singaporean university students in Melbourne, Australia, this book details how we organize our social relations into diverse configurations of global and local spaces. This book aims to help university students, researchers, and members of the public to think more critically about how we develop our mental maps of the world, experience the migration of others and ourselves, and shape our media environments.

• media
• migration
• globalization
• cosmopolitanism
• international students
• Singapore
• international relations
• Nation
• philosophy
• political history
• political science
• political theory
• politics
• social science
• sociology

“Chin’s work offers some valuable theoretical arguments and empirical insights, and represents a potentially useful resource for future scholars. … it succeeds in describing the ways in which international students (of the developed world) experience migration and media, and how they relate to information and experiences as diverse sources of their discourse, imagination, and identity.” (Peidong Yang, Mobile Media & Communication, Vol. 5 (3), 2017)

Esther Chin is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She previously lectured in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she also completed a PhD in Media and Communications and a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching. Esther specializes in global communication.

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