Mediatized Transient Migrants: Korean Visa-Status Migrants Transnational Everyday Lives and Media Use

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Mediatized 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 space Through 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.

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Claire Shinhea Lee's "Mediatized Transient Migrants: Korean Visa-Status Migrants' Transnational Everyday LIves and Media Use" provides an engaging analysis of the role and meaning of digital media in transnational lives. This book explores how temporary-visa-status migrants engage with digital media to connect with their homeland and negotiate their transnational everyday lives. Overall, it's compelling, empirical analysis and effective theoretical framwork make this book a useful addition to media, migration studies and Asian studies.

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Claire Shinhea Lee received her PhD in media studies from the University of Texas at Austin.