Understanding Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Migrants: Practical Approaches and Effective Research Methodologies

Catherine Gomes · Wilfred Yang Wang · Jing Qi

May 2026 · Springer Nature

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About this ebook

This book provides readers with practical, culturally aware and engaging ways to research migrant culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Through the diverse disciplinary perspectives of Communication Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Education, Business, and Data Science, the case studies documented in this book offer readers effective methodologies leading to deep and nuanced knowledge of CALD migrants and the communities they belong to. This book looks at research design, including insider-outsider perspectives, recruitment, data collection (ethnographic, individual, and focus group interviews, non-intrusive observations, artifacts, quantitative, data scraping, online, face-to-face and so on), data analysis, conceptual and theoretical frameworks, communication of research and research translation. It describes and reflects on appropriate methodologies for CALD migrant people. With its rich, insightful, and practical examples, this book is a necessary reference for anyone researching the lived experience of migrants in multicultural settings.

About the author

Catherine Gomes is a professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (Melbourne) specializing in communication with culturally and linguistically diverse communities. She is also internationally recognized for her conceptual work on transient migration and for her research on international student wellbeing.

Wilfred Yang Wang is the lecturer in Media and Communications Studies at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on data and algorithmic governance, the biopolitics of ageing, and diasporic media. He is enthusiastic about applied research and is currently leading a community engagement project that aims to improve media literacy and tackle the issue of info-anxiety among older Chinese migrants in Melbourne, Australia.

Jing Qi is a senior lecturer in the School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies at RMIT University (Melbourne). Jing researches the areas of education and languages, and her current research projects focus on culturally and linguistically diverse students, teachers and immigrants.

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