Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2024

Doing Digital Migration Studies

Theories and Practices of the Everyday

Edited by: Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi

Volume 3 in the series Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048555758

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About this book

Doing Digital Migration present a comprehensive entry point to the variety of theoretical debates, methodological interventions, political discussions and ethical debates around migrant forms of belonging as articulated through digital practices.
Digital technologies impact upon everyday migrant lives, while vice versa migrants play a key role in technological developments – be it when negotiating the communicative affordances of platforms and devices, as consumers of particular commercial services such as sending remittances, as platform gig workers or test cases for new advanced surveillance technologies. With its international scope, this anthology invites scholars to pluralize understandings of ‘the migrant’ and ‘the digital’.
The anthology is organized in five different sections: Creative Practices; Digital Diasporas and Placemaking; Affect and Belonging; Visuality and digital media and Datafication, Infrastructuring, and Securitization. These sections are dedicated to emerging key topics and debates in digital migration studies, and sections are each introduced by international experts.

Author / Editor information

Leurs Koen :

Koen Leurs is Associate Professor of Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Programme of the Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Leurs was the principal investigator of the Team Science project Co-Designing a Fair Digital Asylum System, funded by the Universities of the Netherlands Digital Society program and COMMIT, a public-private ICT research community (2022–2023). He chairs the Utrecht University-wide Digital Migration Special Interest Group, part of the Governing the Digital Society focus area. He previously co-edited The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration (Sage, 2020) and the special issues (Im)mobile Entanglements (International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2023) and Inclusive Media Education for Diverse Societies (Media & Communication, 2022). His latest book is Digital Migration (Sage, 2023). For more information, see https://www.uu.nl/staff/KHALeurs.Ponzanesi Sandra :

Sandra Ponzanesi is Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands. She has published widely in the fields of media, postcolonial studies, digital migration and postcolonial cinema with a particular focus on postcolonial Europe from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. She is currently PI of the NWO Project VREM “Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament”. Among her publications are: Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture (Suny, 2004), The Postcolonial Cultural Industry (Palgrave, 2014) and Gender, Globalisation and Violence (Routledge, 2014). She has co-edited among other Postcolonial Cinema Studies (Routledge, 2012), Postcolonial Transitions in Europe (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) and Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2023). More info: https://www.uu.nl/staff/SPonzanesi

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
List of Figures and Tables Open Access Download PDF	11
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	13
Doing Digital Migration Studies: Introduction Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi Open Access Download PDF	17
Section I Creative practices
Introduction to Section I: Creative Practices Karina Horsti Open Access Download PDF	45
1. Against and Beyond Mimeticism : A Cinematic Ethics of Migration Journeys in Documentary Auto- Ethnography Nadica Denić Open Access Download PDF	49
2. Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration and Border Studies Irene Gutiérrez Torres Open Access Download PDF	67
3. Embodying Data, Shifting Perspective : A Conversation with Ahnjili Zhuparris on Future Wake Rosa Wevers and Ahnjili Zhuparris Open Access Download PDF	89
Section II Digital Diasporas and Placemaking
Introduction to Section II: Digital Diasporas and Placemaking Mihaela Nedelcu Open Access Download PDF	109
4. Friendship, Connection and Loss : Everyday Digital Kinning and Digital Homing among Chinese Transnational Grandparents in Perth, Australia Catriona Stevens, Loretta Baldassar and Raelene Wilding Open Access Download PDF	113
5. An Exploration of African Digital Cosmopolitanism Fungai Machirori Open Access Download PDF	133
6. YouTube Became the Place Where “I Could Breathe” and Start “to Sell my Mouth” : Congolese Refugee YouTubers in Nairobi, Kenya Marie Godin and Bahati Ghislain Open Access Download PDF	153
Section III Affect and Belonging
Introduction to Section III: Affect and Belonging Athina Karatzogianni Open Access Download PDF	175
7. Digital Communication, Transnational Relationships and the Making of Place Among Highly Skilled Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic Elisabetta Costa Open Access Download PDF	181
8. When Immovable Bodies Meet Unstoppable Media Circulation : The Aporetic Body in Digital Migration Studies Nishant Shah Open Access Download PDF	197
9. Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies Yener Bayramoğlu Open Access Download PDF	215
Section IV Visuality and Digital Media
Introduction to Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media Giorgia Aiello Open Access Download PDF	235
10. Migrant Agency and Platformed Belongings: The Case of TikTok Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Amanda Alencar and Yan Asadchy Open Access Download PDF	239
11. Affective Performances of Rooted Cosmopolitanism Through Facebook During the Festival International de Folklore et de Percussion in Louga, Senegal Estrella Sendra Open Access Download PDF	259
12. Situating the Body in Digital Migration Research : Embodied Methodologies for Analysing Virtual Reality Films on Displacement Moé Suzuki Open Access Download PDF	279
Section V Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization
Introduction to Section V : Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization Saskia Witteborn Open Access Download PDF	299
13. The Weaponization of Datafied Sound : The Case of Voice Biometrics in German Asylum Procedures Daniel Leix Palumbo Open Access Download PDF	303
14. McKinsey Consultants and Technocratic Fantasies : Crafting the Illusion of Orderly Migration Management in Greece Luděk Stavinoha Open Access Download PDF	323
15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life Kaarina Nikunen Open Access Download PDF	343
Section VI Conclusions
Conclusions: On Doing Digital Migration Studies Koen Leurs Open Access Download PDF	365
Index Open Access Download PDF	381

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 388
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 19
Keywords: Migration; belonging; digital practices; digital migration studies; diaspora

eBook

Published: February 20, 2024
ISBN: 9789048555758