Research handbook on international migration and digital technology / edited by Marie McAuliffe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

McAuliffe, Marie, editor.

Series:

Elgar Handbooks in Migration

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Digital communications--Social aspects.

Digital communications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

This forward-looking Research Handbook showcases cutting-edge research on the relationship between international migration and digital technology. It sheds new light on the interlinkages between digitalisation and migration patterns and processes globally, capturing the latest research technologies and data sources. Featuring international migration in all facets from the migration of tech sector specialists through to refugee displacement, leading contributors offer strategic insights into the future of migration and mobility.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Boxes

Contributors

1. International migration and digital technology: an overview

PART I UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION PATTERNS AND PROCESSES: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MIGRATION RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

2. Digital migration studies

3. Migration stocks and flows: data concepts, availability and comparability

4. The roles and limitations of data science in understanding international migration flows and human mobility

5. The practice and politics of migration data visualization

6. Migration networks: applications of network analysis to macroscale migration patterns

PART II DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE ACT OF MOVING:(IM)MOBILITY, BARRIERS AND BORDERS

7. Navigating borders/navigating networks: migration, technology and social capital

8. Mobile data challenges for human mobility analysis and humanitarian response

9. Migrant smuggling and ICT: research advances, prospects and challenges

10. Robots and refugees: the human rights impacts of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making in migration

11. Drones and border control: an examination of state and non-state actor use of UAVs along borders

PART III INTEGRATION, REINTEGRATION AND MIGRANTS' (DIGITAL) (VIRTUAL) (TRANSNATIONAL) IDENTITIES

12. Migrant inclusion 4.0: the role of mobile tech

13. Online technology for promoting the inclusion of refugees into higher education: a systematic review of current approaches and developments

14. Using ICTs to be here and not 'here': African migrants and religious transnationalism

15. ICTs and transnational householding: the double burden of polymedia connectivity for international 'study mothers'

16. In support of return and reintegration? A roadmap for a responsible use of technology

PART IV CONNECTIVITY AND MIGRATION: TRENDS AND IMPACTS.

17. Technology for engaging and empowering migrant workers

18. Mobile money and financial inclusion of migrants in sub-Saharan Africa

19. The gender dimensions of technology inthe context of migration and displacement: a critical overview

20. Mobility of tech professionals in the world economy: the case of Indian entrepreneurialism in the United States

21. Transnational families and technology: trends, impacts and futures

PART V MIGRATION, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC DEBATES

22. How online disinformation and far-right activism is shaping public debates on immigration

23. The role of networked publics in immigration debates

24. Using new media platforms for human rights advocacy in real-time: people seeking asylum in Nauru and Papua New Guinea

PART VI DIGITAL MIGRATION FUTURES

25. Technological transformations in migration processes: spatiality, temporality and agency

26. Migration forecasting using new technology and methods

27. Ahead of the policy curve: migrants harnessing tech to survive

28. Migration, mobility and digital technology in a post-COVID-19 world: initial reflections on transformations underway

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: McAuliffe, Marie Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology

ISBN:

1-83910-061-3

OCLC:

1289366556