ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an overview of key studies and issues regarding new media practices amongst migrant youth in the Asia-Pacific region. Children and young people are usually the most enthusiastic users of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and young migrants in the Asia-Pacific region are no exception. However, their identities as border-transgressors in the throes of maturation make the role of new media especially salient in their lives. Researchers in the fields of migration, media and childhood/youth are mutually involved in understanding how the nexus of growing up in Asia today as migrants and outsiders and growing up in a digitally enabled environment, impacts the lives of today’s generation of young people. Their work explains how, using various digital media with a local, translocal, or transnational reach, Asian young migrants speak to global youth culture, and share commonalities with migrants in other territories. Their new media practices are globally familiar but also fascinatingly uncommon due to socio-cultural specificity and uneven development in the region.
