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1490793Digital Migrationhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/digital-migration/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/493547/49b80e8b-bd80-407e-83e6-db8c3960f2d7.jpg?v=638335037460130000736818MXNSAGE PublicationsInStock/Ebooks/<p>"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."<br /><em>- Nishant Shah, Chinese University of Hong Kong</em></p><p>"A must read for everyone who is concerned with questions of human mobility, media and communications and the digital border."<br /><em>- Myria Georgiou, LSE</em></p><p>"A much-needed addition to scholarship on mobility, technology, and migration The book is poised to become a touchstone text."<br /><em>- C.L. Quinan University of Melbourne</em></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Digital Migration explores:</p><ul><li>The power relations of digital <strong>infrastructures</strong> across migrant recruitment, transportation and communication.</li><li>Migrant <strong>connections</strong> and the use of digital devices, platforms and networks.</li><li>Dominant digital <strong>representations</strong> of migrants, and how theyre resisted.</li><li>The <strong>affect</strong> and <strong>emotion</strong> of digital migration, from digital intimacy to transnational family life.</li><li>How <strong>histories</strong> of pre and early-digital migration help us situate and rethink contemporary research.</li><li>The realities of <strong>researching digital migration</strong>, including interviews with leading international researchers.</li></ul><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>All author royalties for this book will be donated to the Alarm Phone, a hotline for boatpeople in distress.</p>...1473762Digital Migration736818https://www.gandhi.com.mx/digital-migration/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/493547/49b80e8b-bd80-407e-83e6-db8c3960f2d7.jpg?v=638335037460130000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239781529787115_W3siaWQiOiJmNmQzZTAwNy04MTRiLTRlMDAtODA1ZS1iOTI1YjJlOGJkOTUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjgxOCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjgyLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjczNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781529787115_<p>In contemporary discussions on migration, digital technology is often seen as a smart disruptive tool. 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From top-down governmental and corporate shaping of the migrant condition, to the bottom-up of digital practices helping migrants connect, engage and resist.</p><p>Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Digital Migration explores:</p><ul><li>The power relations of digital <strong>infrastructures</strong> across migrant recruitment, transportation and communication.</li><li>Migrant <strong>connections</strong> and the use of digital devices, platforms and networks.</li><li>Dominant digital <strong>representations</strong> of migrants, and how theyre resisted.</li><li>The <strong>affect</strong> and <strong>emotion</strong> of digital migration, from digital intimacy to transnational family life.</li><li>How <strong>histories</strong> of pre and early-digital migration help us situate and rethink contemporary research.</li><li>The realities of <strong>researching digital migration</strong>, including interviews with leading international researchers</li></ul><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>All author royalties for this book will be donated to the Alarm Phone, a hotline for boatpeople in distress.</p>...(*_*)9781529787115_<p>"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."<br /><em>- Nishant Shah, Chinese University of Hong Kong</em></p><p>"A must read for everyone who is concerned with questions of human mobility, media and communications and the digital border."<br /><em>- Myria Georgiou, LSE</em></p><p>"A much-needed addition to scholarship on mobility, technology, and migration The book is poised to become a touchstone text."<br /><em>- C.L. Quinan University of Melbourne</em></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Digital Migration explores:</p><ul><li>The power relations of digital <strong>infrastructures</strong> across migrant recruitment, transportation and communication.</li><li>Migrant <strong>connections</strong> and the use of digital devices, platforms and networks.</li><li>Dominant digital <strong>representations</strong> of migrants, and how theyre resisted.</li><li>The <strong>affect</strong> and <strong>emotion</strong> of digital migration, from digital intimacy to transnational family life.</li><li>How <strong>histories</strong> of pre and early-digital migration help us situate and rethink contemporary research.</li><li>The realities of <strong>researching digital migration</strong>, including interviews with leading international researchers.</li></ul><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>All author royalties for this book will be donated to the Alarm Phone, a hotline for boatpeople in distress.</p>...9781529787115_SAGE Publicationslibro_electonico_adaf0e93-1532-3b00-bd48-db0226899fae_9781529787115;9781529787115_9781529787115Koen LeursInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/sageuk-epub-312ad9ac-934e-43e2-bfba-4d7f59dbd8e5.epub2023-04-28T00:00:00+00:00SAGE Publications