ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what their experiences suggest about the possibilities and limitations of digital media use for minorities, given that more and more young women from the global South engage with the digital media and experience mobility in the courses of their lives. Drawing on the digital experiences of young women, it intends to recognize qualitative changes in the relatively hidden, mundane yet profound, vernacular cultures of digital media in their materiality and multiple manifestations of complexity. The chapter argues that transnational relations and practices, both online and offline, are not necessarily and inevitably a progressive process, but pose new yet often risky opportunities more than freedoms, or foster a normalization of risk, with some unintended undesirable consequences for migrant women at profound emotional costs. The imaginative aspects of consumption in digital consumer culture and the mediated communications between mothers and daughters can further facilitate intergenerational migration toward desired places of the global North.
