Connecting ‘Home’ With ‘Here’: Personal Homepages in Everyday Transnational Lives

Collins, Francis L.

doi:10.1080/13691830902957668

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“…There is an emerging body of research that provides useful accounts of the risks associated with this revolution, including increased capacity for surveillance and new modes of social exclusion and inequality (e.g. Collins 2009;Franke 2009;Percival and Hanson 2006;Wilding 2006Wilding , 2009. At the same time, there is growing attention to the new opportunities that arise out of these shifts.…”

Section: Icts Cyberspace and The Transformation Of Mobilitymentioning

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Mediating culture in transnational spaces: An example of young people from refugee backgrounds

Wilding

2012

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Many young people with refugee backgrounds struggle to develop positive social and cultural identities in their new settlement locations and often experience disadvantage and marginalization. Yet, recent developments in low cost, accessible Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) potentially provide new opportunities for them to seek their sources of identity and identification elsewhere -through family, peer and cultural connections that transcend the limitations of place. But do youth from refugee backgrounds take advantage of these opportunities for cultural renewal and reconstruction and, if they do, what are the consequences for their local and transnational identities and social networks? As more young people experience mobility -either forced or voluntary -in the course of their early lives, virtual interactions become an important domain of social and cultural practice. In this paper, I explore the mediating effects of digital communications for a small group of young people from refugee backgrounds who currently live in Melbourne but conduct their lives across the globe, in order to reflect on what these experiences suggest about a new set of possibilities for creating trans-local cultures.

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Section: Icts Cyberspace and The Transformation Of Mobilitymentioning

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Mediating culture in transnational spaces: An example of young people from refugee backgrounds

Wilding

2012

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“…17 membership in more than one society (Baas, 2010;Collins, 2009;Robertson, 2008;Robertson & Runganaikaloo, 2014). Two-step migrants also negotiate their mobilities with national agendas of human capital with their own circumstances through diaspora strategies, visa restrictions and citizenship rights (Biao, 2011;Ong, 1993;Robertson & Runganaikaloo, 2014).…”

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Transnational mobilities of Australia-educated and domiciled professional migrants from Vietnam

Nguyen¹

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Within a global discourse of increasing human capital for competitive advantage, skilled migration following international education -known as two-step migration -has been used by governments as a human capacity building strategy. In government-commissioned reports and studies, the dominant use of economic frameworks describes two-step migrants as rational choice makers. Such approaches have the effect of disembodying transnational mobilities as homogeneous 'brain flows' across borders. In contrast, migrants have their own pursuits and experience circumstances affecting their subjectivities in transnational mobilities. By building on extant research on transnationalism, this thesis provides a more holistic picture of education-related and professional migration. It acknowledges the embodiment of transnational mobilities through the relational aspects of migrants' everyday lives, from forming decisions to migrate, to relocating to the host society and planning for the future. Therefore, understanding the relationality of transnational mobilities requires researchers to attend to skilled migrants' engagement with the world across multiple spaces and temporalities.In this study, I examine education-related migration from Vietnam to Australia, portrayed in policy discourse as a human capacity building strategy (Vietnam), and a dual national project of education Negotiation of transnational mobilities by the participants is explored in four major areas: decisions to migrate, relocation experiences, work and life aspirations, and uses of transnational ties. Drawing on Heidegger's phenomenology, I examine these four areas using the concept of being-in-the-world in terms of these migrants' interactions with others and things, the ways they followed and/or broke with public norms, as well as what mattered to them in their mobilities in relation to the surrounding world.ii This thesis contributes further understandings and elaborates distinctive features of two-step migration from Vietnam to Australia in place of earlier research which has analysed Asian migratory flows. The concept of being-in-the-world enables me to argue that two-step migrants from Vietnam in Australia negotiate transnational mobilities through their embeddedness in the socio-political, economic, educational and cultural structures in both countries in relation to their personal concerns and circumstances. Thus, I challenge the assumptions present in 'race for talent' policies that disembody professional migrants as homogeneous flows of human capital from one nation to another. Exploring migrants' entwinement with the world in intersecting domains enables me to add nuances to previous understandings of binaries in migration, including 'routes' and 'roots', agency and structure, and spatiality and temporality. I also extend my critique to approaches adopted in skilled migration research that examine separate influences from migrants' interactions with the world on their negotiations of mobilities.By re-conceptualising transnational mobilities as...

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“…There are also studies on wider aspects of interpersonal communication, including peer and community relationships maintained by migrants using advanced communications technologies. Metyková (2010) states that technologically competent migrants flexibly adopt a variety of interpersonal communications technologies, including video conferencing and multimedia-sharing applications, while Collins (2009) focuses more specifically on the uses of social-networking sites by sojourner students in maintaining and developing transnational friendships.…”

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“…This transnational activity reflects multilayered relationships between and beyond the sending and receiving countries: the global hegemonic relationship among nation-states has led to large-scale migrations to some English-speaking countries for the purpose of education. As a result, an increased number of actors are seeking their economic fortunes in commercialized international education, and well-to-do international students and their families are able to engage in transnational lives more easily than before (Collins, 2009). The present study population, comprising unaccompanied Korean adolescents in the United States, is a typical example of the recent wave of educational migration, which has been accelerated by increasing competition not only in the field of education but also in society as a whole.…”

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Living in a Transnational Room: Transnational Online Communication by Unaccompanied Korean Adolescents in the United States

Kim

2015

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Abstract:Seeking to understand the wide use of the Internet as a transnational communications technology, this qualitative study inquired into the Internet use of unaccompanied Korean adolescents. Grounded in the findings of the adolescents' living contexts, this study set a basic question: How do the transnational online communication practices of unaccompanied adolescents shape and reflect their transnational lives? Spending a tremendous amount of time in their rooms at host homes due to their limited social relationships in the United States, they intensively consumed Korean media content via the Internet. They also made efforts to maintain interpersonal relationships with people in Korea by utilizing multiple online technologies. This study found that technological availability, cultural sensibility, and healthy peer community were important contexts of the adolescents' transnational online communication.

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Connecting ‘Home’ With ‘Here’: Personal Homepages in Everyday Transnational Lives

Cited by 53 publications

References 29 publications

Mediating culture in transnational spaces: An example of young people from refugee backgrounds

Mediating culture in transnational spaces: An example of young people from refugee backgrounds

Transnational mobilities of Australia-educated and domiciled professional migrants from Vietnam

Living in a Transnational Room: Transnational Online Communication by Unaccompanied Korean Adolescents in the United States

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