[ecrea] Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 1.2

Intellect is thrilled to announce that the much anticipated new issue of 
/Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (1.2) /is now available.

For more information about this issue please click here 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3270/> or email 
(katy /at/ intellectbooks.com) <mailto:(katy /at/ intellectbooks.com)>.

Articles within this issue include (partial list):

International students and social exclusion in the age of social media 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23490/>

*Authors: *Xinyu Zhao

Page Start: 163

This article considers the changing nature of international students’ 
lived experiences of disadvantage in Australia in the context of their 
daily practices of social media. Specifically, it first engages with the 
extant empirical research on social media practices in the migration 
context which points to the contingent impacts of digital technologies 
on migrants’ everyday lives. This body of literature suggests the 
possibility to probe into the lived experiences of migrants and their 
everyday strategies through a close examination of their activities 
around social media. Further, this article attends to studies in the 
Australian international student literature which highlights the 
interplays of digital technologies and international student agency.

Exploring the elusive shape of service outcomes: Reflections on 
evaluating academic language and learning support services 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23493/>

*Authors: *Xiaodan Gao and Kirsten Reid

Page Start: 219

Student Learning Te Taiako at Victoria University of Wellington (New 
Zealand) provides academic learning support for tertiary students at 
undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As part of good practice and for 
the purpose of continual improvement of service quality, service and 
programme evaluations are regularly conducted. These evaluations include 
the end of year Student Learning Survey and bi-annual peer observations 
and tend to focus on student satisfaction and/or perceptions of the 
services and programmes offered. More recently, in response to the New 
Zealand government’s call for tertiary education institutions (TEIs) to 
report on their services and the outcomes of these services, Student 
Learning has been looking at ways in which evaluations can be carried 
out over and above student numbers and satisfaction. The purpose of this 
article is to reflect on and redefine evaluations at Student Learning Te 
Taiako. The article argues that, instead of chasing evidence to show 
direct contribution to student outcomes, a more structured approach to 
evaluation should be taken and a comprehensive set of evidence/data 
provided to demonstrate the contribution of academic learning advising 
to the overall student learning experience.

A flowing culture: Images of early Gujarati Indian-Islamic migrants in 
Aotearoa New Zealand 
<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=23495/>

*Authors: *Rafik Patel

Page Start: 251

Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the /Sea of Stories/ (1990) sets up an 
imaginative tale of a father and son’s journey in search of happiness. 
In this fictional reality the ocean is filled with a sea of stories that 
manifest the hope of a new beginning. This story also takes the reader 
on a whimsical journey that is non-linear. It sways back and forth like 
the currents of the ocean, and its allegory transcends the ocean as a 
vessel that contains important narratives and knowledge, and as a 
spatial medium to cross borders and boundaries. Considering this 
allegory, this article presents an auto-ethnography in relation to 
migration of the first Gujarati Indian families to arrive in Aotearoa 
New Zealand, in the early 1900s. It discusses how these families 
integrated and began to construct and grow a new community within. Thus, 
this article attempts to uncover stories and a history of migration of 
the author’s own family that flowed from South Asia to the Pacific, 
transferring a rich culture of Indian-Muslim faith, practice and 
architecture.


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