Europe is a cultural space of meeting, mixing and clashing; it is a space of sharing (and not sharing) economic, cultural and symbolic resources. Dominant ideologies of Europeanism project an image of Europe as a common and distinct cultural Home, a Home that excludes and (re-)creates Otherness when it does not fit in a model of universalism and appears as competing particularism. Cultural diversity has always characterised Europe, but growing potentials for mobility and communication have led to the emergence and intensification of diverse cultural experiences and formations. In this context, the growing numbers and kinds of diasporic media have significant implications for imagining multicultural Europe and for participating (or not) in European societies and transnational communities. What is argued here is that diasporic media cultures do not emerge as projects that oppose the universalistic projects of Europe and of global communication, but that they gain from ideologies of globalisation and democratic participation, as much as they gain and depend on ideologies of identity and particularism. Drawing from a cross-European mapping and specific case studies, I will try to explain why diasporic media cultures challenge both the limits of European universalism and of diasporic particularism.

This article examines a number of digital initiatives where refugees and migrants speak with/to Europe in the context of the "migration crisis". The analysis of four institutional and grassroots initiatives illustrates digital Europe's symbolic articulations of borders that divide people and territories. As argued, the mediated visibility and voice of refugees and migrants matters precisely as the order of appearance (Arendt, 1958) in digital Europe represents a fundamental dimension of the continent's communicative order: revealing who speaks and who is silenced, which actors are heard and which are side-lined in the context of Europe's "migration crisis". The incorporation of refugee and migrant voices in digital Europe shows that voice does not guarantee recognition; rather, its incorporation reveals the complex politics of digital representation: in occasions challenging hegemonic power structures but most often digitally reaffirming bordering power and its symbolical articulations.

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This paper explores the communicative architecture of reception at the peak of Europe's 2015-2016 "migration crisis." Drawing on fieldwork at one of Europe's outer borders-the Greek island of Chios-the paper examines the border as a site where refugee and migrant reception takes place and where the parameters of Europe's ethico-political response to the "crisis" are set. The paper demonstrates that the continent's double requirement of security and care produces a new and highly ambivalent moral order, hospitability. Constituted through techno-symbolic networks of mediation, hospitability reaffirms dominant theorizations of the border as an order of power and exclusion but goes beyond these in highlighting micro-connections of solidarity that simultaneously coexist with and attempt to challenge this order.

This paper focussed on an area of transnational Arabic television, which has attracted little scholarly attention: soap operas and their consumption among women in the Arab diaspora.Focus groups with Arab audiences in London revealed the significant role that soap operas play in sustaining a gendered critical and reflexive proximity to the Arab world. The paper shows that soap opera viewing provides female audiences in the diaspora with opportunities to reflect on their own gender identities as distant from hegemonic discourses of gender in their region of origin but as proximate to a moral set of values they associate with this same region. This was especially, but not exclusively, the case with young women born in the diaspora.