Urban Refugees and Digital Technology : Reshaping Social, Political, and Economic Networks / Charles Martin-Shields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin-Shields, Charles, Author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Colombia--Bogotá--Case studies.

Refugees.

Refugees--Colombia--Bogotá--Case studies.

Refugees--Kenya--Nairobi--Case studies.

Refugees--Malaysia--Kuala Lumpur--Case studies.

Technology--Social aspects--Colombia--Bogotá--Case studies.

Technology.

Technology--Social aspects--Colombia--Bogotá--Case studies.

Technology--Social aspects--Kenya--Nairobi--Case studies.

Technology--Social aspects--Malaysia--Kuala Lumpur--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 7 diagrams, 2 tables

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide. Against this backdrop digital technologies are fundamentally changing how refugees and displaced people engage with urban landscapes and economies where they settle.Urban Refugees and Digital Technology draws on contemporary data gathered from refugee communities in Bogotá, Nairobi, and Kuala Lumpur to build a new theoretical understanding of how technological change influences the ways urban refugees contribute to the social, economic, and political networks in their cities of arrival. This data is presented against the broader history of technological change in urban areas since the start of industrialization, showing how displaced people across time have used technologized urban spaces to shape the societies where they settle. The case studies and history demonstrate how refugees’ interactions with environments that are often hostile to their presence spur novel adaptations to idiosyncratic features of a city’s technological landscape.A wide-ranging study across histories and geographies of urban displacement, Urban Refugees and Digital Technology introduces readers to the myriad ways technological change creates spaces for urban refugees to build rich political, social, and economic lives in cities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One. Conceptualizing Technology and Urban Displacement in Theory and History

1 Urban Refugees in a Digital World

2 The Urban Context: Where Displacement and Digitalization Meet

3 Technological Change, New Displacement Patterns, and Urbanization

4 Digitalization and Urban Administration: Evolutions of Surveillance

Part Two. Contemporary Case Studies and the Digital Future of Urban Displacement

5 Methods in the Contemporary Context: Case Studies and Data Collection

6 Bogotá: ICT Access in the Neighbourhood

7 Kuala Lumpur: Time, Distance, and Legal Exclusion

8 Nairobi: Shifting Politics in a Digital Metropolis

9 Digitalization and Urban Displacement: Future Scenarios

10 The Future: Digitalization, Displacement, and New Urban Societies

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)

ISBN:

0-2280-2053-0