Chinese Labour Migration in the Digital Media Context
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Chinese Labour Migration in the Digital Media Context

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eBook - ePub

Chinese Labour Migration in the Digital Media Context

About this book

What does it mean to a family when parents go abroad for economic gains while leaving their children behind? How do they maintain a family when living in different areas, separated for years? How do emerging digital media like instant messaging, social media, and webcam calls impact the everyday lives of today's transnational families? Drawing on immersive ethnography conducted among UK-based Chinese labour migrants, their left-behind children and caregivers, this book explores how they employ digital media to negotiate family roles and maintain kinship ties. While virtual connections are indispensable, they are not a panacea for physical separation; rather, they introduce complexity to family dynamics. Probing the bittersweet experiences of various family members, it portrays how mediated familial communications intertwine with transnational socio-economic asymmetries and intra-familial dynamics. This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective for general publics and academics interested in migration studies, family and gender studies, and media and communications.

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Yes, you can access Chinese Labour Migration in the Digital Media Context by Hong Chen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Media Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040800850
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Living Together Across Borders: Digital Media, Overseas Labour Migration, and the Chinese Context
  9. 2 Leaving Family for the Family: Overseas Labour Migration and Chinese Transnational Families
  10. 3 Towards Traditional or Atypical Parenting?: Gendered ā€œBlessings and Burdensā€
  11. 4 Left-Behind Children as Mediated Actors: Beyond Receiving Care and Countering Surveillance
  12. 5 The ā€œConnectedā€ Caregivers: The Bumpy Road to Collaborative Childrearing
  13. 6 Techno-Familial Scape: Socio-Techno Family Practice, Mediated Socio-Structural Relationship, and Bottom-Up Transnationalism
  14. Methodological Appendix: The Fieldwork
  15. References
  16. Index