Title:	Migration, Media, and Global-Local Spaces
Authors:	Esther Chin
Keywords:	Transnationalism Social aspects
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	As the United Kingdom entered the 2015 election year, the national significance of international students became evident in public debate on migration. Theresa May, the political leader in charge of UK national security and a potential leader of the governing political party, proposed to cut net migration by requiring non-European Union (non-EU) university students to depart the United Kingdom once they graduate, and to apply for any further right to study or work from outside the United Kingdom. However, prominent political, business, and community leaders opposed this proposal. They expressed concerns that the United Kingdom could lose its competitiveness in the global market for international education because foreign students could view the United Kingdom as less attractive than other potential study destinations if it became harder for them to access poststudy opportunities there. In addition, restricting the right of non-EU citizens to work in the United Kingdom could reduce UK companies’ access to foreign talent and hurt the United Kingdom’s competitiveness in the global economy more generally. The opinions on this prominent news story reveal that there are overlaps in public discussion about distinct forms of migration (such as student and skilled migration, as well as mobility within and into the EU); that established narratives of student migration are reconstructed by a wide range of stakeholders and actors (such as politicians with different political affiliations, business leaders, locals, and international students); that many of these diverse stakeholders and actors participate in multiple polities and societies (such as the United Kingdom, the EU, countries where UK multinational corporations operate, and international students’ countries of origin); and that these stakeholders negotiate the continuously changing relationships between the global and the local spaces of the United Kingdom and other countries. I have written this book to share information, research, and ideas on how our experiences of migration might be related to our experiences of media. We may experience migration first-hand, be familiar with the migration of loved ones, and encounter foreigners face to face and through media. How are our thoughts and feelings about migration informed by our engagement with news, entertainment, social and mobile media? How are migration and media relevant to our views of the world, its countries, and its cities? How do we draw our own maps of the world and its places, as we try to construct meaningful relationships between the various places we see through migration and media? Besides countries and cities, what other social spaces do we consider important, and how do we use a range of media platforms to create these social spaces?
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54207
ISBN:	978-1-137-53227-5
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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