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Digital Migration (Paperback)
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In contemporary discussions on migration, digital technology is
often seen as a ′smart′ disruptive tool. Bringing efficiencies
to management, and safety to migrants. But the reality is always
more complex. This book is a comprehensive and impassioned account
of the relationship between digital technology and migration. From
′top-down′ governmental and corporate shaping of the migrant
condition, to the ′bottom-up′ of digital practices helping
migrants connect, engage and resist. Taking an interdisciplinary
approach, Digital Migration explores: The power relations of
digital infrastructures across migrant recruitment, transportation
and communication. Migrant connections and the use of digital
devices, platforms and networks. Dominant digital representations
of migrants, and how they’re resisted. The affect and emotion of
digital migration, from digital intimacy to transnational family
life. How histories of pre and early-digital migration help us
situate and rethink contemporary research. The realities of
researching digital migration, including interviews with leading
international researchers Critical yet hopeful, Koen Leurs opens up
the unequal power relations at the heart of digital migration
studies, challenging us to imagine more just alternatives. Koen
Leurs is an Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration
Studies at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and
Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. All author
royalties for this book will be donated to the Alarm Phone, a
hotline for boatpeople in distress. Â
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