Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data

Järv, Olle; Aagesen, Håvard Wallin; Väisänen, Tuomas Lauri Aleksanteri; Massinen, Samuli

doi:10.1080/09654313.2022.2108312

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“…By focusing on individuals’ subjective apprehension of time and heterogeneous border-crossings, mobile social media reconstructs the effect of “time-space compression” (Harvey, 1989, p. 240) that transcends spatial and temporal boundaries and thereby changes the transnational flow of migration (Chang & Gomes, 2020; Järv et al, 2022; Ling & Campbell, 2009). Accordingly, the border-crossing process of migrant students is not always homogeneous and symmetrical in spatial and temporal scales.…”

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“…Recent research on mobile media and migration has captured the affordances of smartphones, mobile technologies, and mobile social media that provide migrants with homogenous space-time mobilities (e.g., Georgiou & Leurs, 2022; Järv et al, 2022; Xie, 2021), but little attention has been paid to the complicated spatial-temporal mobility landscape (re)constituted by mobile social media. On the one hand, mobile use of social media supplements migrants’ physical mobility based on its portability, locatability, and multimediality (Ling & Campbell, 2009; Marvin, 2013; Schrock, 2015), as smartphones are easy to carry and allow migrants to “virtually engage with physical environments through GPS tracking and can be used synchronously with other activities and applications” (Kuru et al, 2017, p. 104).…”

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“…As regular immigrants, their valid stay visas ensure their border-crossing journey without any hindrance or risk of deportation. According to our observations and interviews, during the journey, their mobile phone works as “a proxy for an individual” that produces “information about their whereabouts in space and time” and reveals digital footprints of “their presence in physical space” (Järv et al, 2022, p. 3). In other words, their mobile phones and mobile social media are a reflection of their synchronous spatial-temporal mobility.…”

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“…Mobile social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, are accessed through mobile devices and connect migrants with other people to share messages, photos, and information that accelerate interactivity and broaden potential audiences (Humphreys, 2013; Wei et al, 2018). While traditional border studies emphasize digital technologies reinforcing border control and causing social exclusion for migrants (Chouliaraki & Georgiou, 2019), an increasing number of studies have begun to concern the affordance of mobile social media available to migrants to carry, seek locality information, and cross territorial borders (Järv et al, 2022; Labayen & Gutierrez, 2021). This newly emerged use of smartphones as a technology of migration greatly differentiates itself from past studies of mobile phones as feature phones without the global positioning system (GPS) and sophisticated Internet capabilities (Georgiou & Leurs, 2022).…”

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Digital borders in spatial-temporal mobility: Social inclusion and exclusion of Chinese migrant students in Macao

Lin

2023

Mobile Media & Communication

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While mobile social media has increasingly become embedded in migrants’ daily lives, how mobile social media affects migrants’ cross-border experiences remains under-researched. Based on a 2-year ethnographic study, this article demonstrates a more complex relationship among mobile social media, migrants’ spatial-temporal mobility, and their subjective experience of social inclusion and exclusion. Situated in a Chinese cross-border context (Macao Special Administrative Region), this article elaborates on how mobile social media leads to heterogeneous and synchronous spatial-temporal mobility in a homogeneous time-narrative. This article further explains how and why mainland students’ social exclusion transforms into digital inclusion, where the blurring boundaries create the possibility of digital and social inclusion but also risk deeper exclusion and internal borders. The article argues for a new epistemology of the border, which is complicated, heterogeneous, and paradoxical, while mobile social media reinvigorates the border concept in how it constructs and deconstructs territorial/internal boundaries and inclusion/exclusion dynamics.

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Digital borders in spatial-temporal mobility: Social inclusion and exclusion of Chinese migrant students in Macao

Lin

2023

Mobile Media & Communication

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“…Although qualitative analysis can reveal the underlying influencing factors of CBM, without quantitative analysis involving relatively large sample sizes, it often fails to test statistical relationships between the influencing factors and CBM, let alone the causality between them. Current studies on CBM based on quantitative analysis include descriptive statistics relating to mobility types or border crossers ( 11 ). These studies thus contribute to an evidence-based understanding of the occurrence of CBM and its health effects.…”

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COVID-19 impacts on cross-border mobility of senior population between Shenzhen and Hong Kong

He,

Niu,

Wei

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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The onset of the COVID-19 outbreak led to widespread adoption of mobility intervention policies, which were widely regarded as effective measures to control the spread of the virus. The initial pandemic wave, accompanied by the enforcement of mobility intervention policies, greatly changed human mobility patterns, especially cross-border mobility (CBM). This study investigates the impact of the first wave of the pandemic and related mobility intervention policies on the CBM of the senior population between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Based on anonymous mobile phone trajectory data from 17 million devices active in Shenzhen spanning December 2019 to May 2020, we consider the implementation of mobility intervention policies during different stages of pandemic in both cities. We adopt interrupted time series (ITS) analysis to explore the causal effects of different mobility intervention policies on the CBM of older people between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. We find that most mobility intervention policies have a significant abrupt or gradual effect on the CBM of older people, especially in the 60–64 age group. As these policies neglect the mobility needs and characteristics among the senior groups, such as visiting relatives or friends and seeking medical treatment across borders, we suggest that more coordinated and integrated policies and measures are required to address the CBM needs of older people in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, especially in the post-pandemic era.

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Improving the understanding of mobility in cross-border areas using a pooled travel survey

Delloye,

Klein,

Klein

et al. 2024

Transportation

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Understanding mobility behaviour in cross-border regions is a major challenge for transport policies and the wellbeing of people living near national borders. However, the available relevant information is often limited to a collection of unharmonized national sources. To overcome this limitation, we propose a methodology for building a pooled travel survey, by merging microdata from travel surveys conducted independently in different cross-border areas of the same cross-border region. Anchored in the Luxembourg functional cross-border region as a study area, this paper provides a general, ready-to-use harmonization methodology for pooling travel surveys. It critically discusses the resulting harmonized values of standard daily mobility indicators in regard to the specificities of the study area. Lastly, it shows that the values for the proportions of trip purposes computed with the pooled survey exhibit substantial differences from values obtained using only local travel surveys (up to 6 percentage points, and up to 33 per cent in the total number of trips). This illustrates the added value of a pooled travel survey compared with an unharmonized collection of local surveys.

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Revealing mobilities of people to understand cross-border regions: insights from Luxembourg using social media data

Cited by 6 publications

References 66 publications

Digital borders in spatial-temporal mobility: Social inclusion and exclusion of Chinese migrant students in Macao

Digital borders in spatial-temporal mobility: Social inclusion and exclusion of Chinese migrant students in Macao

COVID-19 impacts on cross-border mobility of senior population between Shenzhen and Hong Kong

Improving the understanding of mobility in cross-border areas using a pooled travel survey

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