Special Issue guest edited: Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday

Sandra Ponzanesi (Editor), Koen Leurs (Editor)

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Abstract

This special issue explores the role that digital technology plays in the lives of migrants. It does so by paying close attention to governmental and supranational organizations as well as to subjective and affective dimensions of the everyday. Digital migration practices emerge as complex negotiations in the digital media sphere between infrastructural bias and agential opportunities, contesting racial practices as well as enabling digitally mediated bonds of solidarity and intimacy. The issue offers nuanced critical perspectives ranging from surveillance capitalism, extractive humanitarianism, datafication, and border regimes to choreographies of care and intimacy in transnational settings, among other aspects. Renowned international scholars reflect on these issues from different vantage points. The closing forum section provides state-of-the-art commentaries on digital diaspora, affect and belonging, voice and visibility in the digital media sphere, queer migrant interventions in non-academic settings, and datafication and media infrastructures in “deep time.”
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)103-298
Number of pages195
JournalCommunication, Culture and Critique
Volume15
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2022

Keywords

  • migration
  • digital media
  • everyday
  • datafication
  • care
  • border

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