Mediated absent presence in forced displacement

Twigt, Mirjam A.

doi:10.1080/15405702.2018.1540784

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“…The tranquillity of Saw Ka Lu's fenced garden seems a million miles away from the oft-challenging environment of the camp. However, his house and garden are right in the middle of Mae La Temporary Shelter, a refugee camp with a population of over 34,000 inhabitants (UNHCR, 2020), located on the Thai–Myanmar border. Since 2008, Saw Ka Lu and his musician brother have provided a safe space for artistic expression (Figure 1).…”

Section: A Space Of Political and Creative Expressionmentioning

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Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube

Hill

2021

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article investigates a concern among encamped elder Karen refugees (an ethnic minority from Myanmar) living along the Thai–Myanmar border that the youth are disconnected politically and culturally. I argue that Karen youth are creative, active participants, reimagining and revitalising Karen politics and culture in their image. I explore how displaced youths have found a voice in Karen rap and how they express this voice in the digitally mediated lived space of YouTube. I consider YouTube as a lived space where citizenship is reimagined and long-distance nationalism is articulated. Finally, I contend that YouTube is transforming Karen youths’ political experiences and mobility and that they are actively political – just not in the way the elders expect.

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Section: A Space Of Political and Creative Expressionmentioning

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Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube

Hill

2021

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…Those who have done so have broken with the ‘celebratory’ perspectives on ‘mobility’ (Twigt, 2019: 173) that underpin much of the writings produced in the field of migration and communication technologies. Indeed, contemporary policies of border externalization have impeded a lot of forced migrants to reach their destination countries and have compelled them to live, as Giorgia Doná (2015) has put it, ‘stuck in conditions of prolonged displacement’, in a situation of ‘forced territorial and bureaucratic immobility’ (p. 71), often in non-Western settings.…”

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“…The researches dealing with information practices in refugee camps that are located in developing countries also alert us on the need of not focusing exclusively on the uses of digital devices, but of considering the ordinary media uses. Breaking with the ‘celebratory’ perspectives on ‘digital connectivity’ (Twigt, 2019: 173), which are quite common within the field of migration and communication technologies, these studies carried out in refugee camps point more particularly to the importance of the good old analog radio.…”

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Media, communication technologies and forced migration: Promises and pitfalls of an emerging research field

Mattelart

2019

European Journal of Communication

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In this article, we identify some of the main axes structuring the emergent research field of ‘Media, communication technologies and forced migration’, whose development has been greatly stimulated by the so-called European ‘migration crisis’. In consonance with the cross-cutting theme of this Special Issue, we study more specifically, concentrating mainly on the European context, how, within this research field, media and communication technologies have been represented either as contributing to the building of symbolic borders or, on the contrary, as tools facilitating the circumvention of symbolic and territorial borders. Basing our argument on some of the main works that have given shape to this research field, we assess – with no claim for exhaustiveness – some of the latter’s main contributions and limitations.

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“…These lived spaces are where social and familial relations, private matters, lived experiences, flows, and ruptures are woven together. As Twigt (2019) argues, space is ‘an articulation of social relations with more than one location’ (Twigt, 2019: 173). The significance lies in the notion that encamped refugees are not bound to one place (i.e.…”

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Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand

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2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article reflects on how offline and online everyday life coexists for encamped, young Karen living in protracted displacement. As part of the special issue ‘Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements’, edited by Earvin Cabalquinto and Koen Leurs, I centre the voices of young Karen living in Mae La refugee camp in Thailand and unpack how personal and social relationships are built and maintained physically in the camp, as well as in digitally mediated spaces. I focus on the tensions of (im)mobility and how life and presence were mediated before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. I emphasise the influence of culture, society, and infrastructure on my participants’ living trajectories and find how social media expands their lived reality far beyond the confinement of the camp.

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Mediated absent presence in forced displacement

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube

Poetic resistance: Karen long-distance nationalism, rap music, and YouTube

Media, communication technologies and forced migration: Promises and pitfalls of an emerging research field

Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand

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