Civic Media and Placemaking:
						(Re)Claiming Urban and Migrant Rights Across Digital and Physical
						Spaces

Alevizou, Giota

doi:10.4135/9781526476982.n47

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“…Smets et al (2019) edited a series of relevant papers on issues of space and migrants' digital connectivity. Alevizou (2019) takes the discussion one step further by linking the social contexts within which civic imagination and creativity develop to fit the cultural protocols and place-making that grow around the use of IT. Yet there is little engagement with the digital realm and its emancipating dimension during migration processes in the fields of geography and critical urban theory.…”

Section: The 'Migration Multiples' and Digital Spacementioning

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Analog flows in digital worlds: ‘Migration multiples’ and digital heterotopias in Greek territory

Galis

Makrygianni

2022

Political Geography

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Section: The 'Migration Multiples' and Digital Spacementioning

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Analog flows in digital worlds: ‘Migration multiples’ and digital heterotopias in Greek territory

Galis

Makrygianni

2022

Political Geography

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“…Internet and social media in particular often mediate political engagement and access to information about critical public matters—not least “the migration crisis,” campaigns for or against welcoming refugees, but also online interactions between different actors involved in civic life who would not otherwise “see” each other, that is, citizens and refugees. Such initiatives, some of which are discussed in the next section, show how both those receiving and those arriving constitute themselves as citizens through digital acts and digitally enhanced urban encounters (Alevizou In press; Isin and Ruppert 2015; Zivi 2012) that set forward claims for just cities—cities that make recognition possible not only for the national citizen but for all urban subjects.…”

Section: Digital Connectivity Recognition and Active Citizenshipmentioning

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City of Refuge or Digital Order? Refugee Recognition and the Digital Governmentality of Migration in the City

Georgiou

2019

Television & New Media

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This article analyses the digital governmentality of the city of refuge. It shows how digital infrastructures support refugees’ new life in the European city, while also normalizing the conditionality of their recognition as humans and as citizens-in-the-making. Research in Athens, Berlin, and London revealed the city as a vital but fierce space for refugees to claim, and sometimes find recognition that the nation often denies. A multimethod qualitative study with refugees and civil society actors at the aftermath of Europe’s “migration crisis” recorded urban cultures of hope for cities that are hospitable and open. Yet, it also recorded conditional welcoming that sets strict requirements for newcomers’ recognition as more than a category of external Others that need to prove their “right to have rights.” As shown, a digital order requires a performed refugeeness as precondition for recognition: that is, a swift move from abject vulnerability to resilient individualism.

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“…At the same time, digital placemaking scholarship has largely focused on the way citizens use media in their urban interactions, linking placemaking practices to civic media (Alevizou, 2019). Therefore, the term 'digital placemaking' mostly describes the use of multimedia platforms and digital apps that link urbanites' activities to a sense of belonging and the potential to intervene in urban development.…”

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Digital placemaking as survival tactics: Sub-Saharan migrants’ videos at the Moroccan–Spanish border

Labayen

Gutiérrez

2021

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This article examines the use of digital media by irregular migrants in their preparation to cross the Moroccan–Spanish border. Based on long-term exploratory research that includes active participation and in-depth interviews, we analyse the videos produced by sub-Saharan young males while they live in the settlements near Ceuta. By focusing on processes of self-representation and border crossing, we highlight the role of digital media as it embodies a liminal physical experience against the violence applied by the Moroccan border security forces and the surveillance systems implemented by the Spanish Guardia Civil. Departing from recent contributions to digital migration studies, this article develops the concept of digital placemaking as an assemblage of discourses and spatial practices that serve opposite interests and generate an extremely violent confrontation through the use and control of borderspace. Therefore, we claim that the migrants’ placemaking strategies can be understood as mobile counter-discourses against border control. In this sense, the physical and digital activities of the migrants in the settlements are examples of what we call tactical placemaking, insofar as they become ways to stay alive and link their persons and futures to discussions about access to place and its consequences. To examine the migrants’ spatial tactics and their social meaning, first we will offer a brief infrastructural and historiographical account of the Moroccan–Spanish border in Ceuta. Second, we will explain our methodological perspective to shed light on the modes that placemaking experiences are created and circulated among migrants during and after their stay at the settlements. Finally, we will study the self-recordings shot in the clandestine camps of the forest in Fnideq and the border of Ceuta and consider how these videos materialize legal, cultural and physical imaginaries on migration while they simultaneously disrupt official attempts at controlling placemaking.

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Civic Media and Placemaking: (Re)Claiming Urban and Migrant Rights Across Digital and Physical Spaces

Cited by 4 publications

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Analog flows in digital worlds: ‘Migration multiples’ and digital heterotopias in Greek territory

Analog flows in digital worlds: ‘Migration multiples’ and digital heterotopias in Greek territory

City of Refuge or Digital Order? Refugee Recognition and the Digital Governmentality of Migration in the City

Digital placemaking as survival tactics: Sub-Saharan migrants’ videos at the Moroccan–Spanish border

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