For most migrants, developing communication strategies in host countries is vital for finding social connections, navigating the pressures of assimilation, and maintaining links to their original cultures.
With varying aspirations and motives for seeking new homes, migrants build communities by telling stories, engaging in social media activism, protesting in the streets, writing scholarly criticism, and using many other modes of communication. Since what it means to be a migrant differs from person to person, the contributors to this edited collection showcase numerous practices migrants adopt to communicate and connect with others as they forge their own identities in globalized yet highly nationalistic societies.
