Doing Digital Migration Studies. Theories and Practices of the Everyday
Book
Author(s) / editor(s):
Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi
Year: 2024
Language(s): English
Abstract:
In today’s world, migration and digital technologies mutually shape each other. Although historically intertwined, their relationship is rapidly evolving. People on the move live and belong in increasingly datafied and digitized environments, using mobile devices, social media and apps to build transnationally connected yet locally grounded social worlds. They connect with family and peers, share memories and information, navigate spaces, and reshape local–global relations through everyday digital practices. At the same time, these digital intensifications are Janus-faced: migrants are exposed to datafied migration management, algorithmic surveillance, control, biometric classification, and transnational authoritarianism and repression. This anthology, Doing Digital Migration Studies, empirically traces and theorizes these everyday digital practices surrounding migration.
https://uplopen.com/reader/books/pdf/10.1515/9789048555758
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