New technology offers extremely novel and useful ways of exploring ‘the everyday’ of young people’s lives and can include videos, live feeds filmed on social media, text messages, email communication, and messaging or headset communication on gaming consoles. The significance of mobile communication in the lives of young people means that digital diaries offers alternate ways of implementing PhotoVoice methods. This viewpoint proposes the ways in which digital diaries are a useful method of collecting data in research with young people and highlights the challenges and ethical concerns that must be considered when using this method.

Transnational spaces signify a fluidity of boundaries where migrants must contend with their own sense of belonging. Within these spaces, migrants negotiate their cultural identities in order to develop this sense of belonging. Somerville (2008) describes the need to focus more on processes rather than outcomes when looking at the ways in which identities are constructed. In order to achieve this, one must look at 'ways of doing' rather than 'ways of being'. Research on transnational spaces has recently begun to focus on the second-generation in diasporic spaces. There is a gap in the literature focusing on second-generation migrants, as it has tended to pay more attention to outcomes of identity rather than the processes through which cultural identity is formed. This exploratory paper will examine some of these processes for second-generation Indian migrants living in the diaspora and how this relates to one's sense of belonging by drawing on recent research conducted in Brisbane, Australia. The young women who participated in the research highlight the significance of space and time on the formation of their cultural identities. Through shifting their identities, they enabled a better sense of belonging in different contexts. The main questions for this exploratory paper are: How do Indian young women's senses of belonging shift according to context in transnational spaces? Also, how are these shifting identities a significant part of the process in establishing feelings of belonging and one's cultural identity formation?