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Parallel Societies of International Students in Australia explores
the social and cultural spaces that international students occupy
in destination countries. It specifically examines the connections
they make and the significance of this parallel society in helping
them become resilient, empowered and self-sufficient. It further
explores the way in which international students become
disconnected from the family and friends they left behind at home,
as well as from local communities. Drawing on a decade worth of
research into the social, cultural, real and digital spaces
occupied by international students in Australia, the book also
reflects on the biggest challenge humanity has faced in a hundred
years; the COVID-19 global pandemic. It considers the impact that
the decisions made by the Australian government and international
education stakeholders in response to this evolving crisis have had
on international students. This book will be of interest to
academics and stakeholders involved in international education and
working with international students.
Exploring the impact of the digital environment on international
students, carefully selected global contributors examine how
digital experiences have been used to internationalize higher
education. Using fascinating case studies and current research,
this book considers the digital experiences of students as a result
of their engagement with international education providers and
stakeholders from a transnational and trans-disciplinary
perspective. Looking specifically at the digital transitions and
networks that international students experience during their time
studying overseas, this book examines the ways in which the
curriculum and higher education institutions’ engagement
strategies have been shaped by the digital environment. Split into
three sections, this book: looks at the broad experiences of
international students, covering the digital transitions and
networks that students experience during their time studying
overseas explores the ways in which the curriculum has been shaped
by the digital environment considers the ways in which higher
education institutions and other service providers implement
digital engagement strategies to communicate more effectively with
international students. Digital Experiences of International
Students is essential reading for practitioners, academics,
researchers, administrators, policy-makers, and anyone with an
interest in learning and teaching in a digital age.
Exploring the impact of the digital environment on international
students, carefully selected global contributors examine how
digital experiences have been used to internationalize higher
education. Using fascinating case studies and current research,
this book considers the digital experiences of students as a result
of their engagement with international education providers and
stakeholders from a transnational and trans-disciplinary
perspective. Looking specifically at the digital transitions and
networks that international students experience during their time
studying overseas, this book examines the ways in which the
curriculum and higher education institutions' engagement strategies
have been shaped by the digital environment. Split into three
sections, this book: looks at the broad experiences of
international students, covering the digital transitions and
networks that students experience during their time studying
overseas explores the ways in which the curriculum has been shaped
by the digital environment considers the ways in which higher
education institutions and other service providers implement
digital engagement strategies to communicate more effectively with
international students. Digital Experiences of International
Students is essential reading for practitioners, academics,
researchers, administrators, policy-makers, and anyone with an
interest in learning and teaching in a digital age.
This edited volume examines the importance of quality issues in
contemporary higher education systems in the Asia Pacific. Part One
foregrounds relevant discussions of 'quality' within today's
globalized, interconnected, and complex higher education systems
while Part Two focuses on selected universities in the Asia Pacific
region. Chapter contributors discuss how quality issues and quality
assurance mechanisms are implemented in their situation-specific
systems. Part Three extends the research of higher education
quality assurance in Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) and the
diverse international student body in the Australian higher
education system. The conclusion chapter discusses a typology of
methods used by higher education systems in establishing effective
quality assurance mechanisms.
This book examines the experiences of transient migrants in the
Asia-Pacific, and in so doing provides new ways of understanding
diversity. By focusing on the transient destination hubs of
Australia and Singapore, Catherine Gomes shifts our thinking about
diversity for two disruptive reasons: the increasingly large and
global transient flows of people and our everyday reliance on
digital media. The unprecedented usage of digital media influences
not only communication patterns and information-seeking behaviour,
but has also led to the rapid evolution of the very nature of
entertainment and news, and directly impacted on our documenting
and mapping of self (e.g. posts of photographs, opinions and links
on social media timelines). The book introduces readers to the
concept of siloed diversity - a phenomenon which occurs when people
rely on a hierarchy of identities developed while in transience to
make connections and disconnections with others.
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.
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.
This book focuses on the interrelationship between international
student connectedness and identity from transnational and
transdisciplinary perspectives. It addresses the core issues
surrounding international students' physical and virtual
connectedness to people, places and communities as well as the
conditions that shape their transnational connectedness and
identity formation. Further, it analyses the nature, diversity and
complexity of international student connectedness and identity
development across different national, social and cultural
boundaries.
Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced,
understood, proselytised and countered. Religious institutions and
leaders use digital media to engage with their congregations who
now are not confined to single locations and physical structures.
The faithful are part of online communities which allow them a
space to worship and to find fellowship. Migrant and mobile
subjects thus are able to be connected to their faith -- whether
home grown or emerging -- wherever they may be, providing them with
an anchor in unfamiliar physical and cultural surroundings. As Asia
rises, mobilities associated with Asian populations have escalated.
The notion of 'Global Asia' is a reflection of this increased
mobility, where Asia includes not only Asian countries as sites of
political independence, but also the transnational networks of
Asian trans/migrants, and the diasporic settlements of Asian
peoples all over the world. This collection features cutting edge
research by scholars across disciplines seeking to understand the
role and significance of religion among transnational mobile
subjects in this age of digital media, and in particular, as
experienced in Global Asia.
Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia provides original,
nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral
economies of Asia. Through case studies from South and Southeast
Asia, the collection sheds important light on how the new
mobilities and wealth created by neoliberal globalization transform
people's ways of life, notions of personhood, and their meaning
making of the world. It highlights the moral dilemmas and anxieties
emerging from the profound socio-economic transformations that are
taking place across the region and deepens our understanding of
local cultures as well as the inner contradictions of global
capital in Asian contexts. With rich ethnographic insights and a
diverse range of empirical contexts, chapters in this volume reveal
multifaceted complexities and contradictions in the relationship
between money and moralities. Money, they affirm, is not an
impersonal, objective economic instrument with homogenizing powers
but a culturally constructed and socially mediated currency in
which meanings are constantly contested and re-negotiated across
time and space.
This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational
migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of
digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects
digital media plays in these experiences. While there has been work
on the various ways in which internet communication technologies
(ICTs) particularly mobile communication allows for various forms
of connectivity between individuals and groups in this age of hyper
(transnational) mobility, there is a scarcity on the way digital
media presents challenges, creates agency and alters relationships
within the broad umbrella of the transnational migration
experience. The authors in this collection- who come from diverse
disciplinary backgrounds across social, cultural, education and
communication research - present cutting edge cross and trans
disciplinary analyses of transnational migration where digital
media becomes a creative, if not fundamental avenue, for migrants
to develop new strategies for dealing with their cross-border
mobilities.
This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational
migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of
digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects
digital media plays in these experiences. While there has been work
on the various ways in which internet communication technologies
(ICTs) particularly mobile communication allows for various forms
of connectivity between individuals and groups in this age of hyper
(transnational) mobility, there is a scarcity on the way digital
media presents challenges, creates agency and alters relationships
within the broad umbrella of the transnational migration
experience. The authors in this collection- who come from diverse
disciplinary backgrounds across social, cultural, education and
communication research - present cutting edge cross and trans
disciplinary analyses of transnational migration where digital
media becomes a creative, if not fundamental avenue, for migrants
to develop new strategies for dealing with their cross-border
mobilities.
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