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Book SynopsisMediatized Transient Migrants: Korean Visa-Status Migrants' Transnational Everyday Lives and Media Use examines the role of digital media in Korean visa-status migrants' everyday lives in terms of their senses of home, belonging, and identity. Based on personal interviews with 40 migrants living in Austin, Texas, Claire Shinhea Lee argues that the mundane use of homeland media brought by new media technology allows these migrants to make, connect to, and complicate home in their transnational spaceThrough the theoretical framework of mediatization and transnationalism, Lee shows similarities and differences among different U.S. visa categoriesworkers in specialty occupations (H1B, L1, OPT), academic students (F1), and their dependents (F2, L2, H4)and analyzes not only multi-positionality within the transient migration but also the gendered structure of the visa system.
Table of ContentsChapter One: From Diasporic Audience Studies to Digital Migration Studies Chapter Two: Searching for Ontological Security in a Transnational Space Chapter Three: Making Home Through Transnational Cord-Cutting Practice Chapter Four: Connecting Home Through Smartphone and Algorithm Culture Chapter Five: Complicating Home through Mediatization and Transnationalism Chapter Six: Gendered Visa? Dependent Women’s Media and Home-Making
