Mobile Technologies and Forced Migration
Book chapter
Dona, G. and Godin, M. 2018. Mobile Technologies and Forced Migration. in: Bloch, A. and Dona, G. (ed.) Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates Routledge. pp. 126-144
Authors | Dona, G. and Godin, M. |
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Editors | Bloch, A. and Dona, G. |
Abstract | This chapter adopts a comprehensive approach to examine the role of mobile technologies for belonging and survival among forced migrants in transit who inhabit ‘techno-border-scapes’. It integrates the literature on state surveillance, digital activism and digital humanitarianism. Forced migrants in Calais live outside conventional forms of protection and assistance at the French-UK border. For them mobile phones are multi-functional devices and life-saving tools that intersect with all dimensions – practical, affective, economic, social and political – of their lives. They are enabling but also constraining devices that produce digital inequalities. |
Book title | Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates |
Page range | 126-144 |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Publication dates | |
Online | 15 Aug 2018 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 26 Oct 2018 |
ISBN | 9781138653238 |
9781138653221 | |
9781315623757 | |
Web address (URL) | https://www.routledge.com/9781138653238 |
Additional information | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Forced Migration: Current Issues and Debates on 15.08.18, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138653238 |
Accepted author manuscript |
https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/8471z
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