Transnational migration, media and identity of Asian women : diasporic daughters / Youna Kim.

New York : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2011.

xii, 169 pages ; 24 cm.

Diasporic Daughters -- Individualization and Mediated Migration -- Transnational Mobility, Diasporic Media, National Identity -- Cosmopolitanism in Question -- Longing to Tell: Methodological Reflections -- Manifestations of the Global Diaspora -- Korean Diaspora -- Japanese Diaspora -- Chinese Diaspora -- Emergence of Diasporic Daughters -- Feminization of International Migration -- Provisional Diaspora: "Willing to go anywhere for a while" -- Temporary Sojourning as a Prelude to Settlement -- Mediation: The Media on the Move -- Experiencing the Global City: London -- Female Individualization in Transnational Flows -- No Choice Situation: "It's the only exit" -- Relocation of the Self: "It's like a gamble" -- Rise of Global Woman: "We call it a golden certificate" -- Consuming the West: Imagining an Individual -- Everyday Media and Reflexivity: "The more I see it on the media, the more I think" -- Intentionality of Media Consumption: "Something you like always affects you somehow" -- Power of Mediation: "The decision to believe the media is made by us" -- Precarious Self: A Conclusion -- Banal Racism: "It's the everyday little things that matter" -- Paradox of Choice: "because it is my choice, my responsibility" -- Gendered Global Subject: "because I am a Chinese woman?" -- Unspeakable Exclusion: A Conclusion -- Ethnic Enclave and Mediated Disengagement: "the UK television is in my closet" -- Ethnic Media and Self-Identity: "I am solid Japanese" -- Feeling Nationalism: "feel like a woman warrior of China" -- Internet and Banal Nationalism: A Conclusion -- Cosmopolitanism as a Western Concept: "we never invented cosmopolitanism" -- Imagined Cosmopolitanism: "just imagine through the media but cannot act" -- Why Be a Cosmopolitan?: "we are seen as a problem" -- Beyond Global Consumer Cosmopolitanism?: A Conclusion -- Imperfect Belonging: Going Home Again? -- Media and Mythical Home -- Thick Nationalism, Thin Cosmopolitanism.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-166) and index.