Doing Digital Migration Studies: Methodological Considerations for an Emerging Research Focus

Leurs, Koen; Prabhakar, Madhuri

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76861-8_14

Cited by 28 publications

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“…By building on Madianou’s (2011) concept of polymedia 8 and addressing research gaps in Information Communication Technologies (ICT), and migration and media practices (Oiarzabal and Reips, 2012) scholarship, recent studies have highlighted the impact of ubiquitous and pervasive technologies (software and hardware) for migrants (Leurs and Prabhakar, 2018). The technologies for migrants and the media practices consequently developed fulfil three different goals: monitoring and surveillance (top-down or self-imposed) (Budarick, 2015); mediation of presence (Cabalquinto, 2018; Prieto Blanco, 2016); and transfer of resources (Aker, 2018; Batista and Narciso, 2013).…”

Section: Migration and Photo-sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Be)Longing through visual narrative: Mediation of (dis)affect and formation of politics through photographs and narratives of migration at DiasporaTürk

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Prieto-Blanco

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Our article explores how diasporic journeys and identities are remembered and represented through the visual narratives of DiasporaTürk, a Turkish diasporic media presence consisting of a Twitter account, an Instagram page, and two books. These engagements revive past (dis)affects and highlight the contemporary relevance of nostalgia, sorrow and victimization as key themes in the migration experience of ‘guest-workers’ from Turkey. The evidentiary force of the index, inhabiting fictional characters while looking like factual and archival material, seems thus to both acknowledge and validate migrated ‘guest-workers’, who, as subaltern groups, have otherwise received little praise or recognition in Turkey or ‘host’ countries. At the same time, while converging past and present (dis)affects associated with Turkish migration, DiasporaTürk contributes to reaffirming the reduction and homogenization of official/normative collective memories of migration via concrete visibilities/presences and invisibilities/absences.

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Section: Migration and Photo-sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Be)Longing through visual narrative: Mediation of (dis)affect and formation of politics through photographs and narratives of migration at DiasporaTürk

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Prieto-Blanco

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…These are: (1) new places and social connections; (2) purpose lost and found; (3) transition, longing and belonging; and (4) co-presence, support and glocal identity. These interpretations were further supported by a thorough literature review in order to situate the study in the group of research projects done in the field of digital migration studies (Leurs and Prabhakar, 2018).…”

Section: Social Media Emotional Practices Of Unaccompanied Refugee Youthmentioning

confidence: 92%

Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media

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Zezulkova

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Migration for unaccompanied refugee youth is an emotionally complex process involving mediated experiences and expressions of emotions and affect. This article draws upon social media ethnography conducted with young refugees from African and Middle Eastern countries living in Europe. The participants’ emotional practices were explored through the multimodal analysis of content they shared on Facebook. The findings highlight how the young refugees performed multifaceted yet interconnected emotional practices. These emotional practices potentially assisted their negotiation of emotional losses and gains resulting from migration. The online mediated emotionality, however, cannot be fully comprehended through the reductionist lenses of binary oppositions such as losses and gains, presence and absence, or positive and negative emotions. This article shows that unaccompanied refugee youth’s experience and expression of emotions online are influenced by more than their migration experience, and that their interconnected nature and complexity need to be considered.

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“…Although it is clear that the relatively uncharted territory of overlaps and entanglements among migration, ICTs, media practices and affordances needs to be critically addressed (Oiarzabal & Reips, 2012;Ponzanesi & Leurs 2014), the "turn to the digital" suggested by Leurs and Prabhakar (2018), needs to be contextualized within a wider discussion that also takes class into account, as evidenced through Piemontese's contribution in this volume. Even when doublings and intersections among migrants, software and hardware happens intuitively and organically, class impacts on their form and purpose.…”

Section: What Does Visual Research Methods Add To the Study Of Migration?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Afterword: Visual Research in Migration. (In)Visibilities, Participation, Discourses

Prieto-Blanco

2021

IMISCOE Research Series

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Profound developments in terms of scale, diversity of digital media and prosumerism (García-Galera & Valdivia, 2014; Madianou, 2011) in the last decade have resulted in vast monitoring of movement, migratory or otherwise. While migrants have been outlined as digital natives, early adopters and heavy users of digital technologies (Ponzanesi & Leurs, 2014); the intersection of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and migration is still under-researched (Oiarzabal & Reips 2012), Madianou’s (2011) work being a notable exception. As Leurs and Prabhakar highlight (2018, p. 247), the implications of the rise of ubiquitous and pervasive technologies (software and hardware) for the migration experience can be grouped in two sets of media practices. On the one hand, these technologies are used to reproduce and (forcefully) enforce top-down control by (state) authorities. On the other, they enable migrants - both voluntary and forced - to connect (dis)affectively, manage kinship and other relationships (Cabalquinto, 2018; Madianou, 2012; Prieto-Blanco, 2016), participate in collective processes (Siapera & Veikou, 2013; Martínez Martínez, 2017; Özdemir, Mutluer & Özyürek, 2019), establish a sense of belonging (Yue, Li, Jin, & Feldman, 2013; Budarick, 2015; Gencel-Bek & Prieto-Blanco, 2020), and move money across borders (Aker, 2018; Batista & Narciso, 2013). “[T]he transformed epistolary base and the communication infrastructure of the migrant experience” (Hedge 2016, p. 3), with their distinct affordances, impact on how migration is currently understood via a focus on connectivity and presence. Stay in touch. Remain within reaching distance. Leave, but let your presence linger.

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Doing Digital Migration Studies: Methodological Considerations for an Emerging Research Focus

Cited by 28 publications

References 32 publications

(Be)Longing through visual narrative: Mediation of (dis)affect and formation of politics through photographs and narratives of migration at DiasporaTürk

(Be)Longing through visual narrative: Mediation of (dis)affect and formation of politics through photographs and narratives of migration at DiasporaTürk

Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media

Afterword: Visual Research in Migration. (In)Visibilities, Participation, Discourses

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