Doing Digital Migration Studies
Koen Leurs, Sandra Ponzanesi (eds)
- Title
- Doing Digital Migration Studies
- Subtitle
- Theories and Practices of the Everyday
- Editors
- Koen Leurs
- Sandra Ponzanesi
- ISBN
- 9789048555758
- Format
- eBook PDF
- Number of pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 20 - 02 - 2024
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Discipline
- Film, Media, and Communication
- Also available as
- Hardback - € 141,00
Prelims
Doing Digital Migration Studies: Introduction - Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi
Section I Creative practices
Introduction to Section I: Creative Practices – Karina Horsti
Chapter 1. Against and Beyond Mimeticism: A Cinematic Ethics of Migration Journeys in Documentary Auto-Ethnography – Nadica Deni.
Chapter 2. Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration and Border Studies – Irene Gutiérrez Torres
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 5. An Exploration of African Digital Cosmopolitanism – Fungai Machirori
Chapter 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
Chapter 7. Digital Communication, Transnational Relationships and the Making of Place Among Highly Skilled Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic – Elisabetta Costa
Chapter 8. When Immovable Bodies Meet Unstoppable Media Circulation: The Aporetic Body in Digital Migration Studies – Nishant Shah
Chapter 9. Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies – Yener Bayramo.lu
Section IV Visuality and Digital Media Introduction to Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media – Giorgia Aiello
Chapter 10. Migrant Agency and Platformed Belongings: The Case of TikTok – Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Amanda Alencar and Yan Asadchy
Chapter 11. Affective Performances of Rooted Cosmopolitanism Through Facebook During the Festival International de Folklore et de Percussion in Louga, Senegal – Estrella Sendra
Chapter 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
Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Datafied Sound: The Case of Voice Biometrics in German Asylum Procedures – Daniel Leix Palumbo
Chapter 14. McKinsey Consultants and Technocratic Fantasies: Crafting the Illusion of Orderly Migration Management in Greece – Lud.k Stavinoha
Chapter 15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life – Kaarina Nikunen and Sanna Valtonen
Section VI
Conclusions
Doing Digital Migration Studies: Introduction - Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi
Section I Creative practices
Introduction to Section I: Creative Practices – Karina Horsti
Chapter 1. Against and Beyond Mimeticism: A Cinematic Ethics of Migration Journeys in Documentary Auto-Ethnography – Nadica Deni.
Chapter 2. Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration and Border Studies – Irene Gutiérrez Torres
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 5. An Exploration of African Digital Cosmopolitanism – Fungai Machirori
Chapter 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
Chapter 7. Digital Communication, Transnational Relationships and the Making of Place Among Highly Skilled Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic – Elisabetta Costa
Chapter 8. When Immovable Bodies Meet Unstoppable Media Circulation: The Aporetic Body in Digital Migration Studies – Nishant Shah
Chapter 9. Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies – Yener Bayramo.lu
Section IV Visuality and Digital Media Introduction to Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media – Giorgia Aiello
Chapter 10. Migrant Agency and Platformed Belongings: The Case of TikTok – Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Amanda Alencar and Yan Asadchy
Chapter 11. Affective Performances of Rooted Cosmopolitanism Through Facebook During the Festival International de Folklore et de Percussion in Louga, Senegal – Estrella Sendra
Chapter 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
Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Datafied Sound: The Case of Voice Biometrics in German Asylum Procedures – Daniel Leix Palumbo
Chapter 14. McKinsey Consultants and Technocratic Fantasies: Crafting the Illusion of Orderly Migration Management in Greece – Lud.k Stavinoha
Chapter 15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life – Kaarina Nikunen and Sanna Valtonen
Section VI
Conclusions
Koen Leurs, Sandra Ponzanesi (eds)
Doing Digital Migration Studies
Theories and Practices of the Everyday
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.
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.
Editors
Koen Leurs
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.
Sandra Ponzanesi
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
