Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2024), 387 pp.
Contains index
Series: Media, Culture and Communication in Migrant Societies Series, 3
ISBN 978-90-485-5575-8 (electronic bk.); 90-485-5575-2 (electronic bk.)
"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." (Publisher description)
Doing Digital Migration Studies: Introduction / Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi, 17
SECTION I: CREATIVE PRACTICES
Introduction to Section I: Creative Practices / Karina Horsti, 45
1. Against and Beyond Mimeticism : A Cinematic Ethics of Migration Journeys in Documentary Auto-Ethnography / Nadica Denić, 49
2. Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration and Border Studies / Irene Gutiérrez Torres, 67
3. Embodying Data, Shifting Perspective : A Conversation with Ahnjili Zhuparris on Future Wake / Rosa Wevers with Ahnjili Zhuparris, 89
SECTION II: DIGITAL DIASPORAS AND PLACEMAKING
Introduction to Section II: Digital Diasporas and Placemaking / Mihaela Nedelcu, 109
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, 113
5. An Exploration of African Digital Cosmopolitanism / Fungai Machirori, 133
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, 153
SECTION III: AFFECT AND BELONGING
Introduction to Section III: Affect and Belonging / Athina Karatzogianni, 175
7. Digital Communication, Transnational Relationships and the Making of Place Among Highly Skilled Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic / Elisabetta Costa, 181
8. When Immovable Bodies Meet Unstoppable Media Circulation : The Aporetic Body in Digital Migration Studies / Nishant Shah, 197
9. Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies / Yener Bayramoğlu, 215
SECTION IV: VISUALITY AND DIGITAL MEDIA
Introduction to Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media / Giorgia Aiello, 235
10. Migrant Agency and Platformed Belongings: The Case of TikTok / Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Amanda Alencar and Yan Asadchy, 239
11. Affective Performances of Rooted Cosmopolitanism Through Facebook During the Festival International de Folklore et de Percussion in Louga, Senegal / Estrella Sendra, 259
12. Situating the Body in Digital Migration Research : Embodied Methodologies for Analysing Virtual Reality Films on Displacement / Moé Suzuki, 279
SECTION V: DATAFICATION, INFRASTRUCTURING AND SECURITIZATION
Introduction to Section V : Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization / Saskia Witteborn, 299
13. The Weaponization of Datafied Sound : The Case of Voice Biometrics in German Asylum Procedures / Daniel Leix Palumbo, 303
14. McKinsey Consultants and Technocratic Fantasies : Crafting the Illusion of Orderly Migration Management in Greece / Luděk Stavinoha, 323
15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life / Kaarina Nikunen and Sanna Valtonen, 343
SECTION VI: CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions: On Doing Digital Migration Studies / Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi, 365
SECTION I: CREATIVE PRACTICES
Introduction to Section I: Creative Practices / Karina Horsti, 45
1. Against and Beyond Mimeticism : A Cinematic Ethics of Migration Journeys in Documentary Auto-Ethnography / Nadica Denić, 49
2. Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration and Border Studies / Irene Gutiérrez Torres, 67
3. Embodying Data, Shifting Perspective : A Conversation with Ahnjili Zhuparris on Future Wake / Rosa Wevers with Ahnjili Zhuparris, 89
SECTION II: DIGITAL DIASPORAS AND PLACEMAKING
Introduction to Section II: Digital Diasporas and Placemaking / Mihaela Nedelcu, 109
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, 113
5. An Exploration of African Digital Cosmopolitanism / Fungai Machirori, 133
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, 153
SECTION III: AFFECT AND BELONGING
Introduction to Section III: Affect and Belonging / Athina Karatzogianni, 175
7. Digital Communication, Transnational Relationships and the Making of Place Among Highly Skilled Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic / Elisabetta Costa, 181
8. When Immovable Bodies Meet Unstoppable Media Circulation : The Aporetic Body in Digital Migration Studies / Nishant Shah, 197
9. Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies / Yener Bayramoğlu, 215
SECTION IV: VISUALITY AND DIGITAL MEDIA
Introduction to Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media / Giorgia Aiello, 235
10. Migrant Agency and Platformed Belongings: The Case of TikTok / Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Amanda Alencar and Yan Asadchy, 239
11. Affective Performances of Rooted Cosmopolitanism Through Facebook During the Festival International de Folklore et de Percussion in Louga, Senegal / Estrella Sendra, 259
12. Situating the Body in Digital Migration Research : Embodied Methodologies for Analysing Virtual Reality Films on Displacement / Moé Suzuki, 279
SECTION V: DATAFICATION, INFRASTRUCTURING AND SECURITIZATION
Introduction to Section V : Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization / Saskia Witteborn, 299
13. The Weaponization of Datafied Sound : The Case of Voice Biometrics in German Asylum Procedures / Daniel Leix Palumbo, 303
14. McKinsey Consultants and Technocratic Fantasies : Crafting the Illusion of Orderly Migration Management in Greece / Luděk Stavinoha, 323
15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life / Kaarina Nikunen and Sanna Valtonen, 343
SECTION VI: CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions: On Doing Digital Migration Studies / Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi, 365
