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ItemNo Preview AvailableUnderstanding gendered transnational education mobility: Interview with Fran Martin(SAGE Publications, 2023-12-01)In this interview, Fran Martin discusses gendered transnational education mobility in relation to research methodology, the contradictions of neoliberal ideology, and the social implications of ethnographic research. Challenging stereotypical and often biased portrayals of Chinese international students in the Anglosphere, Martin argues for the importance of attending to the irreducible details of individual life experiences and explains how to employ affective methods to convey these details to readers. Calling for attention to gender as a key perspective in understanding education mobility, she discusses how the global neoliberal discourse underpinning this form of mobility can be restricting and empowering at the same time. She also reflects on the ways in which researchers could engage with social and policy realities and contribute to improving international students’ well-being.
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ItemEnterprising self and bohemian nomad: Emerging subjectivities in Chinese education mobilities(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)This article approaches the question of how experiences of mobility mediate subjectivities through a case study of middle-class Chinese women’s education mobilities. Drawing from longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork with 56 young women who moved from China to Australia for university, the article focuses on two of their stories to illustrate how education mobility mediated their negotiation of available understandings of gendered personhood and competing life value regimes. It demonstrates that for these middle-class women, transnational education mobility may on the one hand reinforce identification with an ideal of enterprising selfhood that is prominent in both global and Chinese public cultures, or on the other hand, facilitate identification with a countervailing model of ‘bohemian’ mobility that has hitherto mainly been observed among more privileged subjects. It also analyses how mobility shaped the women’s negotiations of the linear feminine life scripts that are normative in post-socialist Chinese society versus more flexible, individualized models of gendered biography. The article thus illustrates the gendered aspects of Chinese women’s experiences of education mobility, and the subjective effects that flow from them.
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ItemDreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West(Duke University Press, 2022)In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad, between expectations of fulfilling traditional roles as wife and mother versus becoming highly educated and cosmopolitan career-oriented individuals.
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ItemNavigating Online Down Under: International Students’ Digital Journeys in Australia(Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)Research focusing on the experiences of international students tends to centre directly on their educational experiences rather than their everyday lives outside study. Moreover, much of this research has concentrated almost exclusively on the various impacts of the physical, geographic mobility of international students as they move from one country to another, with very little exploration of their digital experiences. There also exists extensive research on the social media and information seeking experiences of young people in different regions of the world. Some of this research provides a comparison between different sources of information and uses of social media. However, there has been little research on what happens when young people move between regions or countries. Borrowing Chang and Gomes’ (2017a) concept of the digital journey, where in crossing transnational borders, migrants might also cross digital borders, this chapter provides some concrete examples of the digital experiences of international students as they transition––wholly or partly––to the Australian digital environment. How do international students transition from certain online environments into others that may be completely different, even alien, to what they have previously experienced? Referring to qualitative and quantitative data collected from three separate projects conducted between 2012 and 2017, this chapter shows that in making the digital journey, international students in Australia do not so much quit their original digital comfort zones as widen their digital horizons. Understanding international students’ digital journeys is particularly significant since it has implications for future research in international student well-being and the provision of support services for students.
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ItemGender, Mobility Regimes, and Social Transformation in Asia(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)This special issue, which grows out of an international symposium that the editors hosted at the University of Melbourne in November 2016...
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ItemNo Preview Available墨尔本的中国留学生与社交媒体的移动场景 Chinese students and social media mobile scenes in Melbourne(Shanghai University Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 2019-09-16)When most participants use mobile social media in their daily lives, national and ethnical issues are downplayed by their local (or more accurately, cross-regional) focus on absorption: micro-level physical and emotional textures, and the feeling of a particular place where one is located or remembered continues to connect Melbourne and home. The status update of social media is lively, because it is full of specific, daily, homesickness aroused by a hoe, the melancholy of the golden leaves in the night light, a friend, a cup of coffee, a cloud , A melody, a blurry view outside the city window in memory. If we can see this as a form of digital citizenship, then it is not so much an abstract entity under the category of a state as a network of multiple societies and a sense of belonging (and a sense of alienation). Digital social media mobile scenarios, in most cases, completely bypass the country, linking everyday, personal local experiences with culture at the transnational level. This conceptualization of cross-local digital ownership may help us rethink the relationship between citizens, places, mobility, subjectivity, and cities, which I think is very urgent for our time. 大多数参与者在日常生活中使用移动社交媒体时，民族、国家的问题都因 其对地方的 ( 或者更准确地说，跨地方的 ) 专注吸纳而被淡化了:微观层面的物 质和情感纹理，以及一个人所处或者所忆的特定地方的感觉不断延伸，将墨尔 本和家乡连接到一起。社交媒体的状态更新是鲜活的，因为其中充满了具体的、 日常的、因一个馒头而激起的思乡之情，金色的叶子在夜光中唤起的忧郁，一 个朋友，一杯咖啡，一朵云彩，一曲旋律，一片记忆中城市窗外的模糊景色。 如果我们能把这看作是一种数字公民的形式，那么，与其说这是一个国家范畴 下的抽象实体，不如说是一个由多重社会和空间归属感 ( 以及疏离感 ) 构成的网 络。数字社交媒体的移动场景在大多数情况下完全绕开国家，将日常的、切身 的地方体验与跨国层面的文化联系起来。这种对跨地方数字归属的概念化或许 可以帮助我们重新思考公民、地方、流动性、主体性以及城市之间的关系，我 认为这对我们的时代而言是非常紧迫的。
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Item(Im)mobile precarity in the Asia-Pacific(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2019-11-02)If on a global scale, our late-modern era is marked by intensifying mobilities of many kinds, then Asia as a geo-cultural region exemplifies this trend in particularly forceful ways, with large mobile populations including permanent migrants, refugees, international students, labour migrants, young travelers, as well as well-developed cross-border networks of mobile media technologies, products, talents, and finances. Our starting point in this article is the idea that these intensified mobilities sketched are transforming people’s experiences of everyday life and subjectivity in Asia and beyond. The increased regionwide ‘mobilisation’ of economic, social and cultural life seems likely to transform people’s senses of place and movement; experiences of labour; everyday affective and embodied sense of self; gendered, sexed, raced and classed subjectivities; visual and media cultures; youth cultures; cultures of consumption, and more. This raises a plethora of theoretical and empirical questions for a regionally focussed cultural studies. How frictionless are these intensifying flows: which borders and blockages mould the new, transnational experiential geographies that are taking shape? Which populations are advantaged by increased mobility, and which minoritised? What new inequalities emerge as a result of intensifying mobilities–and how do people live with, resist, and creatively negotiate these inequalities at the micro-level of everyday practice? And what will ‘Asia’ come to mean in the emergent reconfigurations of place, geography and identity being wrought by intensifying mobilities? In order to lay the conceptual groundwork for the special issue, this article begins by tracing the interconnections between three of our key terms–(im)mobilities, precarities, and borders–in conversation with the relevant theoretical scholarship on these concepts across a range of disciplinary fields. This leads to the theorisation of a new concept that articulates these connections: (im)mobile precarity.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableWhy universities should invest more to support Chinese students(The Asia Society Australia, 2019-12-03)Providing adequate services to support Chinese students would benefit not only them but all students at Australian universities, raising the quality of education and fostering cross-cultural engagement.
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ItemIntroduction: Australia in the field of trans-Asian media flows(SAGE Publications, 2020-02-22)Although it has long been considered a non-Asian country located in Asia, Australia is increasingly linked to Asian media circuits, and the rise of the Asian media industries is changing Australian media culture. At the level of consumption, Asian media content – from Bollywood film to Japanese TV to Chinese online video to Korean social media and K-pop – is now more readily accessible than ever to media users in Australia due to broadband connectivity and mobile media technologies, as well as (more unevenly) via mainstream commercial distribution. This increased access is not only helping Australia’s Asian migrant populations maintain cultural ties; it is also creating new media tastes for the general Australian audience. Meanwhile, at the level of production, Australian governments, keen to harness the potential for the country’s involvement in the region’s expanding media industries, are exploring new ways to support Australia’s screen media industries by establishing regional partnerships. This Special Issue of Media International Australia grows out of a collaborative research project funded by the Australian Research Council to explore the cultural and industrial implications of these unfolding developments. It seeks to understand how these intensifying media flows across Asia, and including Australia, are transforming the cultural identities of Australian audiences and media products.