Siloed Diversity

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.

Contributes to the diversity-migration-mobility nexus by featuring and highlighting transient migrants, often an overlooked yet burgeoning group of transnationally mobile actors Fills gaps in the literature on diversity involving transient migrants particularly in the Asia-Pacific transient destination hubs of Australia and Singapore Satisfies a growing need by scholars and policy makers to understand the evolving, layered and ubiquitous nature of transient transnational mobility Offers insightful analysis of the digital experiences of transient migrants in tandem with their activities and encounters in the real world environment

Autorentext
Catherine Gomes is an Associate Professor at the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Diversity in the Age of Mobility: Understanding Transient Migration in the Asia-Pacific with a Focus on Australia and Singapore.- Digital Media, Diversity and Physical World.- Siloed Diversity: A Concept.- Conclusion.