Exploring the interplay between international students and their host communities, the book delves into the reasons behind the disconnect between these visible participants and the broader society. It examines their roles as students, neighbors, and workers in service and gig economies, questioning why they remain largely unintegrated despite their significant presence. Through this lens, the narrative highlights the complexities of belonging and community engagement for international students.
Connections, Disconnections, and a Global Pandemic
The book delves into how international students in Australia form distinct parallel societies, highlighting the social and cultural environments they navigate during their studies. It examines the implications of these parallel communities on their experiences and interactions within the broader Australian society, offering insights into the challenges and adaptations faced by students from diverse backgrounds.
This book offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of communication and entertainment media. It examines the role played by digital technologies and uncovers how the combined wider field of entertainment media (films, television shows and music) are vital and helpful platforms that positively aid migrants through self and communal empowerment. This book specifically looks at the upwardly mobile middle class transient migrants studying and working in two of the Asia-Pacific's most desirable transient migration destinations - Australia and Singapore - providing a cutting edge study of the identities transient migrants create and maintain while overseas and the strategies they use to cope with life in transience.