The Asia-Pacific in the age of transnational mobility: the search for community and identity on and through social media

The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia Pacific region has created environments of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to both permanent and temporary multicultural societies. As individuals and groups navigate through an increasingly mobile, transnational and multicultural...

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Weitere Verfasser: Gomes, Catherine ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Anthem Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:Anthem Southeast Asian studies
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Zusammenfassung:The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia Pacific region has created environments of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to both permanent and temporary multicultural societies. As individuals and groups navigate through an increasingly mobile, transnational and multicultural ethnographic landscape, social media provides a sense of belonging for these networked communities. This book is a study of the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the Asia Pacific in the era of social media
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 233 Seiten)
ISBN:9781783085934

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