Urban Studies: Border and Mobility

Kerr, Thor; Ndimande, Bekisizwe S.; Putten, Jan Van der; Johnson-Mardones, Daniel F.; Arimbi, Diah Ariani; Amalia, Yuni Sari

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“…8 As Aine O'Healy has remarked, in Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame, the concept of 'placemaking' is useful for interpreting the "'crossings' [that] mediate the unfolding drama and dilemmas of transcultural cohabitation for local audiences." 9 Two conferences held recently that are enlightening regarding the questions raised in this paper are the 4 th International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS) held between 8 and 9 December 2017, 10 and the conference entitled "Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age: Paradoxes of Connectivity and Belonging Conference" held between 10 and 11 April 2018 at The Heyman Center of Columbia University and organized by Sandra Ponzanesi. 11 The debates around the potentials of transnational history are also useful for shaping new methods aiming to combine the perspectives of migration studies, gender studies and urban studies.…”

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Mobility and Migration as Constituting Elements of Urban Society: Migration as a Gendered Process and How to Challenge Digital Universalism

Charitonidou

2021

Curriculum for Climate Agency: Design in Action

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The paper aims to present an ensemble of new theoretical frameworks that would allow historiographies of architecture and urban design to take into consideration the question of migration as a gendered process. Unauthorised immigration has emerged as a generalised fact in all Western economies in the post-Second World War era. In such a context, mobility and migration are constituting elements of urban society. Taking as a starting point the fact that domesticity is a construction of the nineteenth century, the main objective of this paper is to shed light on how migration challenges the concepts of user, domesticity and citizenship. Migrant incorporation triggers processes of place-making which open up new social and conceptual spaces in the city. Over the last four decades, there is a changing paradigm in migration studies. This shift is related to the fact that migration studies are gradually paying more and more attention to the gender composition of the migration streams. This trend of studying conjointly gender and migration phenomena becomes more and more dominant. Special attention is paid to methods of gender and migration scholarship that draw on social sci¬ence approaches, treating gender as an institutional part of migration studies and establishing legitimacy for gender in migration studies. The paper reflects upon the implications of establishing methods based on the endeavour to merge migration studies, urban studies and gender studies for the perception of the concepts of placemaking, displacement and domesticity, on the one hand, and for how the mobility from city to city is understood within the contemporary transnational context, on the other hand. Particular emphasis is placed on the relationship between the migration processes and social sustainability. Additionally, the paper examines the role of new media technologies in rethinking the dynamics of migration. It also analyses how we could shape strategies of using urban scale digital twins and big data for decision-making in urban planning that are able to challenge digital universalism.

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Mobility and Migration as Constituting Elements of Urban Society: Migration as a Gendered Process and How to Challenge Digital Universalism

Charitonidou

2021

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“…In addition, there has been a broader discussion on migration and the media delivered by Alonso & Oiarzabal (2010) and Madianou & Miller (2012) with diverse perspectives. However, only a few researchers have explored the issue of migrants from the perspective of media and cultural studies (Allmark & Wahyudi 2016, 2019, Wahyudi 2018. This paper adopts an essential position in exploring smartphone culture and activism with Indonesian migrant workers' daily activities in Hong Kong explicitly.…”

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Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong: Smartphone culture and activism

Wahyudi

Allmark

2020

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This article focuses on contemporary smartphone culture and activism performed by female Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. There are around 330.000 migrant workers in Hong Kong, and wherein 150.000 originated from Indonesia. Most of the Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong work in the domestic sectors: housemaid, babysitter, and career. They are obliged to live with their employer and start working from five mornings until late at night for six days a week. The smartphone is their primary medium in keeping a connection with friends and families back home and reduces social isolation. Interestingly, Indonesian migrant workers also use smartphones for activism to support migrant workers’ rights issues. Despite the isolation issues and the social limitations experienced by the Indonesian migrant workers’, this article aims to explore the following questions: how is smartphone culture developed in Indonesian migrant workers’ communication activities in Hong Kong? How is the smartphone, in particular, used as the medium for activism? Using the netnography method, this research explores the smartphone culture and activism performed by Indonesian migrant workers’ in their online routine. Smartphone usage has become an interesting phenomenon where this device has changed the cultural habits and further forms a new cultural pattern. Social media platforms and chat applications on smartphones have facilitated Indonesian migrant workers’ more comprehensive access to information. It is found that social media access is essential for Indonesian migrant workers to ease loneliness and further used as their medium of existence in the virtual world. Furthermore, they also create virtual identities through social media, share experiences and views through online platforms, and organize protests or other forms of activism. Sulistyaningsih’s case is a clear example of how communication access was crucial for Indonesian migrant workers at a time of danger. The diverse forms of communication technology have allowed them to create compelling messages. This activity provides evidence that Indonesian migrant workers still can be creative despite their long working hours.

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