Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology
Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), 464 pp.
Contains index
Series: Elgar Handbooks in Migration
ISBN 978-1-839100604
"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 provide new analysis of migration futures. A discrete chapter on digital technology and COVID-19 global pandemic offers reflections on how migration and mobility are being profoundly reshaped by the global pandemic. The practical applications and limitations of digital technology in relation to international migration are also highlighted and supported with key case studies." (Publisher description)
1 International migration and digital technology: an overview / Marie McAuliffe, 1
I. UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION PATTERNS AND PROCESSES: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MIGRATION RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
2 Digital migration studies / Koen Leurs and Saskia Witteborn, 15
3 Migration stocks and flows: data concepts, availability and comparability / Dilek Yildiz and Guy Abel, 29
4 The roles and limitations of data science in understanding international migration flows and human mobility / Marie McAuliffe and Adam Sawyer, 42
5 The practice and politics of migration data visualization / William Allen, 58
6 Migration networks: applications of network analysis to macroscale migration patterns / Valentin Danchev and Mason A. Porter, 70
II. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE ACT OF MOVING: (IM)MOBILITY, BARRIERS AND BORDERS
7 Navigating borders/navigating networks: migration, technology and social capital / Farah Azhar, Sara Vannini, Bryce Clayton Newell and Ricardo Gomez, 92
8 Mobile data challenges for human mobility analysis and humanitarian response / Albert Ali Salah, 107
9 Migrant smuggling and ICT: research advances, prospects and challenges / Georgios Papanicolaou, Parisa Diba and Georgios A. Antonopoulos, 123
10 Robots and refugees: the human rights impacts of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making in migration / Petra Molnar, 134
11 Drones and border control: an examination of state and non-state actor use of UAVs along borders / Rey Koslowski, 152
III. INTEGRATION, REINTEGRATION AND MIGRANTS’ (DIGITAL) (VIRTUAL) (TRANSNATIONAL) IDENTITIES
12 Migrant inclusion 4.0: the role of mobile tech / Céline Bauloz, 167
13 Online technology for promoting the inclusion of refugees into higher education: a systematic review of current approaches and developments / Franziska Reinhardt, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Roland Happ and Sarah Nell-Müller, 182
14 Using ICTs to be here and not ‘here’: African migrants and religious transnationalism / Henrietta Nyamnjoh, 195
15 ICTs and transnational householding: the double burden of polymedia connectivity for international ‘study mothers’ / Yang Wang and Sun Sun Lim, 207
16 In support of return and reintegration? A roadmap for a responsible use of technology / Nassim Majidi, Camille Kasavan and G. Harindranath, 220
IV. CONNECTIVITY AND MIGRATION: TRENDS AND IMPACTS
17 Technology for engaging and empowering migrant workers / Angela Kintominas, Laurie Berg and Bassina Farbenblum, 236
18 Mobile money and financial inclusion of migrants in sub-Saharan Africa / Adrian Kitimbo, 251
19 The gender dimensions of technology in the context of migration and displacement: a critical overview / Ibrahim L. Saïd, 267
20 Mobility of tech professionals in the world economy: the case of Indian entrepreneurialism in the United States / Binod Khadria and Ratnam Mishra, 284
21 Transnational families and technology: trends, impacts and futures / Jacqueline Bhabha, Abhishek Bhatia and Sam Peisch, 300
V. MIGRATION, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC DEBATES
22 How online disinformation and far-right activism is shaping public debates on immigration / Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter, 316
23 The role of networked publics in immigration debates / Markus Ojala, 330
24 Using new media platforms for human rights advocacy in real-time: people seeking asylum in Nauru and Papua New Guinea / Cecilia Cannon and Shaminda Kanapathi, 344
VI. DIGITAL MIGRATION FUTURES
25 Technological transformations in migration processes: spatiality, temporality and agency / Huub Dijstelbloem, 361
26 Migration forecasting using new technology and methods / Arkadiusz Wisniowski, 376
27 Ahead of the policy curve: migrants harnessing tech to survive / Emre Eren Korkmaz, 393
28 Migration, mobility and digital technology in a post-COVID-19 world: initial reflections on transformations underway / Marie McAuliffe and Jenna Blower, 406
I. UNDERSTANDING MIGRATION PATTERNS AND PROCESSES: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MIGRATION RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
2 Digital migration studies / Koen Leurs and Saskia Witteborn, 15
3 Migration stocks and flows: data concepts, availability and comparability / Dilek Yildiz and Guy Abel, 29
4 The roles and limitations of data science in understanding international migration flows and human mobility / Marie McAuliffe and Adam Sawyer, 42
5 The practice and politics of migration data visualization / William Allen, 58
6 Migration networks: applications of network analysis to macroscale migration patterns / Valentin Danchev and Mason A. Porter, 70
II. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE ACT OF MOVING: (IM)MOBILITY, BARRIERS AND BORDERS
7 Navigating borders/navigating networks: migration, technology and social capital / Farah Azhar, Sara Vannini, Bryce Clayton Newell and Ricardo Gomez, 92
8 Mobile data challenges for human mobility analysis and humanitarian response / Albert Ali Salah, 107
9 Migrant smuggling and ICT: research advances, prospects and challenges / Georgios Papanicolaou, Parisa Diba and Georgios A. Antonopoulos, 123
10 Robots and refugees: the human rights impacts of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making in migration / Petra Molnar, 134
11 Drones and border control: an examination of state and non-state actor use of UAVs along borders / Rey Koslowski, 152
III. INTEGRATION, REINTEGRATION AND MIGRANTS’ (DIGITAL) (VIRTUAL) (TRANSNATIONAL) IDENTITIES
12 Migrant inclusion 4.0: the role of mobile tech / Céline Bauloz, 167
13 Online technology for promoting the inclusion of refugees into higher education: a systematic review of current approaches and developments / Franziska Reinhardt, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Roland Happ and Sarah Nell-Müller, 182
14 Using ICTs to be here and not ‘here’: African migrants and religious transnationalism / Henrietta Nyamnjoh, 195
15 ICTs and transnational householding: the double burden of polymedia connectivity for international ‘study mothers’ / Yang Wang and Sun Sun Lim, 207
16 In support of return and reintegration? A roadmap for a responsible use of technology / Nassim Majidi, Camille Kasavan and G. Harindranath, 220
IV. CONNECTIVITY AND MIGRATION: TRENDS AND IMPACTS
17 Technology for engaging and empowering migrant workers / Angela Kintominas, Laurie Berg and Bassina Farbenblum, 236
18 Mobile money and financial inclusion of migrants in sub-Saharan Africa / Adrian Kitimbo, 251
19 The gender dimensions of technology in the context of migration and displacement: a critical overview / Ibrahim L. Saïd, 267
20 Mobility of tech professionals in the world economy: the case of Indian entrepreneurialism in the United States / Binod Khadria and Ratnam Mishra, 284
21 Transnational families and technology: trends, impacts and futures / Jacqueline Bhabha, Abhishek Bhatia and Sam Peisch, 300
V. MIGRATION, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC DEBATES
22 How online disinformation and far-right activism is shaping public debates on immigration / Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter, 316
23 The role of networked publics in immigration debates / Markus Ojala, 330
24 Using new media platforms for human rights advocacy in real-time: people seeking asylum in Nauru and Papua New Guinea / Cecilia Cannon and Shaminda Kanapathi, 344
VI. DIGITAL MIGRATION FUTURES
25 Technological transformations in migration processes: spatiality, temporality and agency / Huub Dijstelbloem, 361
26 Migration forecasting using new technology and methods / Arkadiusz Wisniowski, 376
27 Ahead of the policy curve: migrants harnessing tech to survive / Emre Eren Korkmaz, 393
28 Migration, mobility and digital technology in a post-COVID-19 world: initial reflections on transformations underway / Marie McAuliffe and Jenna Blower, 406
