Smartphones: Digital Infrastructures of the Displaced

K.H.A. Leurs; Jeffrey Patterson

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1_40

Smartphones: Digital Infrastructures of the Displaced

K.H.A. Leurs
, Jeffrey Patterson

ICON - Gender Studies

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Under the heading of digital migration studies, scholars from various disciplines have started to explore the roles of smartphones in the lives of displaced migrants. Smartphones are material, portable, embodied, and affective artefacts. Leurs and Patterson, through unpacking smartphones as infrastructures, assess the various meanings, roles, and usages smartphones may play in the lives of displaced migrants. The chapter focuses on three emergent perspectives in research on smartphones in the context of displaced migration: as part of infrastructures of (1) survival and surveillance, (2) transnational communication and emotion management, and (3) digital self-representation. In describing these three themes, the authors are attentive to highlighting the dialectic of structure and agency, subordination and empowerment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Handbook of Displacement
Editors	Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton, Ayesha Siddiqi
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	40
Pages	583-597
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-47178-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-47177-4, 978-3-030-47180-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1_40
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Smartphones: Digital Infrastructures of the Displaced. / Leurs, K.H.A.; Patterson, Jeffrey.
The Handbook of Displacement. ed. / Peter Adey; Janet C. Bowstead; Katherine Brickell; Vandana Desai; Mike Dolton; Alasdair Pinkerton; Ayesha Siddiqi. 1. ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 583-597.

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