{"product_id":"digital-migration-paperback","title":"Digital Migration - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKoen Leurs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars... It introduces an insightful, inspiring, and inviting way of making sense of the messiness without losing hope of changing things.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e- Nishant Shah, Chinese University of Hong Kong\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A must read for everyone who is concerned with questions of human mobility, media and communications and the digital border.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e- Myria Georgiou, LSE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A much-needed addition to scholarship on mobility, technology, and migration... The book is poised to become a touchstone text.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e- C.L. Quinan University of Melbourne\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In contemporary discussions on migration, digital technology is often seen as a ′smart′ disruptive tool. Bringing efficiencies to management, and safety to migrants. But the reality is always more complex.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book is a comprehensive and impassioned account of the relationship between digital technology and migration. From ′top-down′ governmental and corporate shaping of the migrant condition, to the ′bottom-up′ of digital practices helping migrants connect, engage and resist.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Digital Migration explores: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe power relations of digital \u003cstrong\u003einfrastructures \u003c\/strong\u003eacross migrant recruitment, transportation and communication. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Migrant \u003cstrong\u003econnections \u003c\/strong\u003eand the use of digital devices, platforms and networks. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Dominant digital \u003cstrong\u003erepresentations \u003c\/strong\u003eof migrants, and how they're resisted. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The \u003cstrong\u003eaffect \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eemotion \u003c\/strong\u003eof digital migration, from digital intimacy to transnational family life. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e How \u003cstrong\u003ehistories\u003c\/strong\u003e of pre and early-digital migration help us situate and rethink contemporary research.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The realities of \u003cstrong\u003eresearching digital migration\u003c\/strong\u003e, including interviews with leading international researchers.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Critical yet hopeful, Koen Leurs opens up the unequal power relations at the heart of digital migration studies, challenging us to imagine more just alternatives. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Koen Leurs is an Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Program, Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e All author royalties for this book will be donated to the Alarm Phone, a hotline for boatpeople in distress.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKoen Leurs is an Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Program of the Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Leurs is a digital migration studies scholar interested in digital practices of migrants and digital governmentality of migration. He combines mixed methods with creative, participatory and digital approaches. He is PI in the project 'Co-Designing a Fair Digital Asylum System'\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(2022-2023). He was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Previously, he chaired the 'Diaspora, Migration and the Media' section of the \u003ci\u003eEuropean Communication Research and Education Association \u003c\/i\u003e(ECREA, 2016-2021). Recently, Leurs co-edited the \u003cem\u003eHandbook of media and migration\u003c\/em\u003e (Sage, 2020) and special issues on 'Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements' for the \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Cultural Studies \u003c\/i\u003e(2023), 'Digital migration practices and the everyday' for \u003ci\u003eCommunication, Culture \u0026amp; Critique\u003c\/i\u003e and 'Inclusive media literacy education for diverse societies' for \u003ci\u003eMedia and Communication \u003c\/i\u003e(2022). His previous monograph is \u003ci\u003eDigital passages. Diaspora, gender and youth cultural intersections\u003c\/i\u003e (Amsterdam University Press, 2015). \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.61 x 6.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47408046538930,"sku":"9781529706529","price":114.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/vp1NFpCW1n9781529706529.webp?v=1782836411","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/digital-migration-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}