Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women(English, Hardcover, Kim Youna)

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Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women(English, Hardcover, Kim Youna) is written by Kim Youna and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0415890381 (ISBN 10) and 9780415890380 (ISBN 13).

This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their transnational lives through the experience of the media? Are they becoming cosmopolitan subjects? Exploring the key questions within their particular socio-economic and cultural contexts, this book analyzes the contradictions of cosmopolitan identity formation and challenges the general assumptions of cosmopolitanism. It considers the highly visible, fastest growing, yet little studied phenomenon of women's transnational migration and the role of the media in everyday life, offering detailed empirical data on the nature of the women's diaspora. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies and anthropology, the book provides an empirically grounded and theoretically insightful investigation into this evolving phenomenon.