Living across connectivity

Intimacy, Entrepreneurship And Activism Of East Asian Migrants online and offline

Edited by Beatrice Zani, Isabelle Cockel

Publication date:

04 June 2024

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839988868

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This volume fills a major gap in publications on migration and digital media worlds by bringing information and communication technology (ICT) to the fore of our understanding of migrants’ experiences in, and practices of, connectivity and mobility. During recent decades, migration within and from East Asia has become paradigmatic of the changing substance and patterns of global mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, a region defined by its global migration and its leading role in ICT use and development, this volume explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for East Asian migrants, advocating the necessity of understanding how they live their lives both online and offline. In this respect, the originality of this volume lies in its interdisciplinary analysis of migrants’ activities at the crossroads between physical and digital spaces. Our theoretical innovation and empirical findings will open an avenue to investigate the novel shape and scales of contemporary connectivity and mobility.

Introduction: Migrants and their smartphones: switching between online and offline (Isabelle Cheng and Beatrice Zani); Part I: Intimate, emotional, and transnational, Chapter 1: Male Vietnamese migrants in Japan and the virtual negotiation of sexualities (Huy Tran); Chapter 2: Digital (dis)connectivity and transnational (im)Mobility: Stories of Chinese transgender women in Japan (Xinyu (Promio) Wang); Chapter 3: Empowerment, self-reification, and economic aspirations through digital platforms amongst migrant workers in south China (Pablo Ampuero Ruiz); Part II: Digital labour, global work, and e-entrepreneurship, Chapter 4: The e-Commerce of infant milk amongst Chinese migrant women in France: Infant safety, social ties, and gender norms (Li Yong); Chapter 5: E-entrepreneurship and digital diaspora: a case study on Chinese ‘connected’ female entrepreneurs in Canada and in Taiwan (Beatrice Zani); Chapter 6: Migration, global work, and the compressed individual (Laurence Roulleau-Berger); Part III: Social media as a political space Chapter 7. Reach out when there is no way to reach: social media and migration activism in Southeast Asia and Italy (Isabelle Cheng and Beatrice Zani); Chapter 8. Social Media and the making of pro-fat campaigns by migrant activists in Taiwan (Amélie Keyser-Verreault); Conclusion (Delphine Mercier)