Doing Digital Migration Studies : Theories and Practices of the Everyday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leurs, Koen.

Contributor:

Ponzanesi, Sandra, 1967-

Series:

Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies Series

Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies Series ; v.3

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Doing Digital Migration Studies: Introduction

Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi

Section I: Creative practices

Introduction to Section I: Creative Practices

Karina Horsti

1. Against and Beyond Mimeticism: A Cinematic Ethics of Migration Journeys in Documentary Auto-Ethnography

Nadica Denić

2. Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration and Border Studies

Irene Gutiérrez Torres

3. Embodying Data, Shifting Perspective: A Conversation with Ahnjili Zhuparris on Future Wake

Rosa Wevers with Ahnjili Zhuparris

Section II: Digital Diasporas and Placemaking

Introduction to Section II: Digital Diasporas and Placemaking

Mihaela Nedelcu

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

5. An Exploration of African Digital Cosmopolitanism

Fungai Machirori

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

Section III: Affect and Belonging

Introduction to Section III: Affect and Belonging

Athina Karatzogianni

7. Digital Communication, Transnational Relationships and the Making of Place Among Highly Skilled Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Elisabetta Costa

8. When Immovable Bodies Meet Unstoppable Media Circulation: The Aporetic Body in Digital Migration Studies

Nishant Shah

9. Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies

Yener Bayramoğlu

Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media

Introduction to Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media

Giorgia Aiello

10. Migrant Agency and Platformed Belongings: The Case of TikTok.

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Amanda Alencar and Yan Asadchy

11. Affective Performances of Rooted Cosmopolitanism Through Facebook During the Festival International de Folklore et de Percussion in Louga, Senegal

Estrella Sendra

12. Situating the Body in Digital Migration Research: Embodied Methodologies for Analysing Virtual Reality Films on Displacement

Moé Suzuki

Section V: Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization

Introduction to Section V: Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization

Saskia Witteborn

13. The Weaponization of Datafied Sound: The Case of Voice Biometrics in German Asylum Procedures

Daniel Leix Palumbo

14. McKinsey Consultants and Technocratic Fantasies: Crafting the Illusion of Orderly Migration Management in Greece

Luděk Stavinoha

15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life

Kaarina Nikunen and Sanna Valtonen

Section VI: Conclusions

Conclusions: On Doing Digital Migration Studies

Index

List of Figures and Tables

Figure 0.1. Visual harvesting of ideas, Migrant Belongings. Digital Practices and the Everyday conference, by visual artist Renée van den Kerkhof.

Figure 1.1. Zahra playing in the camp. Film still from Midnight Traveler (2019). Courtesy of Hassan Fazili. Copyright The Party Film Sales, Old Chilly Pictures, ITVS, POV | American Documentary.

Table 2.1 Characteristics of the three case studies, including the workshops (process) and the films (results)

Figure 2.1. Nine of the eleven directors of The Way it Goes in the film's Q&amp

A at the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, IV 1st Person Film Festival A Home. Madrid, 6 November 2019, Photo by Irene Gutiérrez.

Figure 3.1. Still 1 from Future Wake (2021). Courtesy of Zhuparris and van Ommeren.

Figure 3.2. Still 2 from Future Wake (2021). Courtesy of Zhuparris and van Ommeren.

Figure 6.1. "Be careful in this election period / Going back at home earlier" (Mwirinde Muriki Gihe Camatora / Gutaha Kare Ningombwa). Video by Kanyamukwengo, still from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50hbtrRn_VM.

Figure 6.2. "Be careful in these days of election / Go back home earlier // it's important" (Mwirinde murikigihe amatora / Gutaha kare ningombwa). Video by Kanyamukwengo, still from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50hbtrRn_VM.

Figure 7.1. The author is conducting an interview with a research participant who was waiting for the results of a Covid-19 PCR test. Photo by Marina De Giorgi.

Figure 8.1. Performance artist Anushka Nair, performing the task of naming the unnamed migrant workers in India who died trying to return home during the Covid-19 lockdown. Photo by Anushka Nair.

Figure 8.2. Participants in the performance performing the labour of writing names on rice to revitalise the names otherwise forgotten. Photo by Anushka Nair.

Figure 9.1. A screenshot of the main stage of Madi Ancestors.

Figure 9.2. Leman posting a sticker on a wall in Neukölln, Berlin, 2021. Photo by Yener Bayramoğlu.

Figure 9.3. A defaced sticker on a lamppost in Kreuzberg, Berlin, 2021. Photo by Yener Bayramoğlu.

Figure 10.1. Proposed forms of agency and belonging, characteristics and examples.

Figure 11.1. Audiences gathering at the Place Civique during the 15th FESFOP. Rooted cosmopolitans stay by the back on the left, along with artists performing in the festival. Photo by Estrella Sendra, 30 December 2015.

Figure 13.1. Illustration of the use of voice biometrics on asylum applicants. Note. The slide is taken from the training documents for BAMF personnel. It provides an overview explaining in which cases voice biometrics are used and illustrates the procedu

Figure 13.2. Sample of a voice biometrics result report. Note. The slide shows what a result report produced by BAMF's voice biometrics looks like. The report consists of three different sections: the first lists the dialects/accents assessed for the asyl

Figure 14.1. McKinsey &amp

Company study on the operationalization of the EU-Turkey statement.

Figure 14.2. McKinsey's breakdown of migrant population on Chios, Greece, in March 2016.

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ISBN:

1-04-079352-5

1-003-69418-7

1-04-079931-0

90-485-5575-2

9781003694182

OCLC:

1427048659