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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The Experience of Peruvian Migrants
London: UCL Press (2023), xiii, 193 pp.
"Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile analyses the experience of ageing for Peruvian migrants aged around 60, who have lived in Chile for over 20 years. Their lives are informed by a series of experiences of being in between. They live between two coun
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Enslaved. Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
Bamenda: Langaa (2023), xxix, 791 pp.
"Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a series of ‘black holes’, in which their access to digital
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Digital Access and Barriers in Displacement-Affected Communities in White Nile, Sudan: Results of a Connectivity Needs and Usage Assessment (CoNUA) by the Norwegian Refugee Council, the GSMA and REACH Initiative
London: GSMA (2022), 38 pp.
"This report shares findings on the access and use of mobile technology among South Sudanese refugees and the communities that host them in three areas of White Nile, Sudan. White Nile is a state in southern Sudan sharing a border and refugee crossing points with South Sudan. It is home to nearly 70
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The Digital Worlds of Displacement-Affected Communities: A Cross-Context Study of How People Affected by Displacement Use Mobile Phones
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GSMA;UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) (2022), 76 pp.
"Through in-depth qualitative research and a survey to confirm and quantify findings, this study aims to provide a more holistic understanding of how displacement-affected communities in three humanitarian settings are using their mobile phones. These settings were chosen to provide a variety of per
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Mobile Phone Use for Social Inclusion: The Case of Internally Displaced People in Nigeria
Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 3 (2022), pp. 532-557
"Internally Displaced People (IDP) have received less attention in ICT4D research. This study examines how IDP in Africa use mobile phones to enhance their social inclusion. We employed Sen’s Capability Approach as the theoretical lens and a qualitative case study as a methodology. Qualitative dat
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Asylees' ICT and Digital Media Usage: New Life - New Information?
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), x, 270 pp.
"What kind of information are refugees looking for? Who do they communicate with? What ICT, social and digital media do they apply? What are their motives to use particular devices or services, from Facebook and WhatsApp to YouTube and TikTok? Are gender- as well as age-dependent differences to be o
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Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology
Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), 464 pp.
"Featuring international migration in all facets from the migration of tech sector specialists through to refugee displacement, leading contributors offer strategic insights into the future of migration and mobility. Covering diverse geographies and using interdisciplinary approaches, contributions
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Digital Safeguarding for Migrating and Displaced Children: An Overview of the Current Context and Trends, Potential Risks and Practical Next Steps
London: Save the Children (2020), 67 pp.
Connecting with Confidence: Literature Review
UNHCR (2020), 23 pp.
"Specifically, the review focuses on the means, barriers, and associated cybersecurity and privacy concerns that refugees face around connectivity. This includes but is not limited to mobile connectivity and social media, particularly in displacement contexts. While these subjects may at times inter
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Information Seeking and Communication During Forced Migration: An Empirical Analysis of Refugees’ Digital Media Use and its Effects on Their Perceptions of Germany as Their Target Country
Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 2 (2020), pp. 167-186
"There is a common perception that ‘every refugee carries a smartphone’, but research on this phenomenon is limited. We conducted a representative survey of 400 refugees to Germany which provides insight into their use of digital media in preparation for and during forced migration. We also aske
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Guía de recolección de datos de personas migrantes
Montevideo: ILDA (2020), 47 pp.
"El objetivo de esta investigación es el desarrollo de una guía de recolección de datos de migración con el fin entender mejor las características de la población migrante. Las recomendaciones de este trabajo surgen a partir de tres casos de estudio en ciudades/regiones fronterizas: Monterrey
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Smartphones: Die Macht in der Hand
iz3w, issue 376 (2020), pp. D1-D31
"Weltweit nutzen 3,3 Milliarden Menschen ein Smartphone, Tendenz weiter steigend. In nahezu allen Ländern des Südens ist die Verbreitung besonders groß. Nicht immer handelt es sich dabei um teure Topmodelle, aber gerade wegen ihrer Erschwinglichkeit sind allein in afrikanischen Ländern 700 Milli
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The Digital Lives of Refugees: How Displaced Populations Use Mobile Phones and What Gets in the Way
London: GSMA (2019), 87 pp.
Bridging the Mobile Disability Gap in Refugee Settings
London: GSMA (2019), 21 pp.
"Based on the findings of this report there are a number of recommendations for how stakeholders across the sector can play their part in bridging the mobile disability gap in refugee contexts. Stakeholders will be most effective if they are coordinated and base their actions on understanding the sp
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Physical Fences and Digital Divides: A Global Detention Project Investigation Into the Role of Social Media in the Context of Migration Control. Part I: Exposing the "Crisis"
Geneva: Global Detention Project (2018), 29 pp.
"This Global Detention Project Special Report is aimed at improving our understanding of how people use social media during their migration journeys, with a special emphasis on their use in the context of detention and migration control in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Part I, “Exposing the
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Mobile is a Lifeline: Research from Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania
London: GSMA (2017), 47 pp.
"This report explores the socio-economic impact of connectivity for refugees in a large, rural camp setting in Tanzania. Nyarugusu is one of three large refugee camps in the Kigoma region. Established in 1996, it now hosts more than 136,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Bu
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Smart(phone) travelling: Understanding the use and impact of mobile technology on irregular migration journeys
International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, volume 3, issue 2/3 (2017), pp. 174-191
"This article analyses how mobile technology impacts on irregular migrants’ journeys. It is based on trajectory ethnography with 11 Afghan, Iranian and Syrian migrants whom the first author met in Turkey and Greece in the spring of 2015. These migrants were followed (partly digitally) to Serbia, H
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Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2017), x, 204 pp.
"This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data
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