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Transient Migrants: A Profile of Transnational Adaptability

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Gomes provides a much-needed profile of transient migrants in Australia and Singapore. Focusing on their ability to adapt to different overseas environments, Gomes points out that transient migrants use a range of interrelated everyday activities to make a home for themselves in their respective host nations. Here Gomes notes that transient migrants already arrive with experiences of diversity, with some coming from multicultural and multilingual backgrounds while others have previous experience in transience as students and workers. This chapter highlights the role played by digital technologies particularly social media in helping respondents adapt to everyday life in transience. This chapter ends with a section on the implications of the research on policy and practice.

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Gomes, C. (2017). Transient Migrants: A Profile of Transnational Adaptability. In: Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1639-4_2

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