[Air-L] Open Access book publication: 'Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday’.

[Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen)]

Dear colleauges, apologies for cross posting: 

Sandra Ponzanesi and I are delighted to announce the publication of the edited volume
‘Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday’. 

Here you can find download links for individual chapters: 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11895524 

This is the direct link to download the full pdf of the book: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87673

This book was 3 years in the making showcasing research first presented at the conference "Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices & the Everyday", held 21– 23 April 2021, assisted by Julia de Lange and Frederik Kohler.

This conference took place online as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and was a duo act connecting the ECREA Diaspora, Migration; the Media Section and the ECREA International and Intercultural Communication Section with the successful closure of the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE: Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging (2016–2021). 

The anthology is organized in five different sections: Creative Practices; Digital Diasporas and Placemaking; Affect and Belonging; Visuality and digital media and Datafication, Infrastructuring, and Securitization. These sections are dedicated to emerging key topics and debates in digital migration studies, and sections are each introduced by international experts.

This is the full table of contents: 
Prelims
Doing Digital Migration Studies: Introduction -Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi 

Section I Creative practices 
-Introduction to Section I: Creative Practices – Karina Horsti 
-Chapter 1. Against and Beyond Mimeticism: A Cinematic Ethics of
Migration Journeys in Documentary Auto-Ethnography  – Nadica Denić 
-Chapter 2. Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration and Border Studies – Irene Gutiérrez Torres 
-Chapter 3. Embodying Data, Shifting Perspective: A Conversation with Ahnjili Zhuparris on Future Wake – Rosa Wevers with Ahnjili Zhuparris 

Section II Digital Diasporas and Placemaking 
-Introduction to Section II: Digital Diasporas and Placemaking – Mihaela Nedelcu
-Chapter 4. Friendship, Connection and Loss: Everyday Digital Kinning and Digital Homing among Chinese Transnational Grandparents in Perth, Australia – Catriona Stevens, Loretta Baldassar and Raelene Wilding 
-Chapter 5. An Exploration of African Digital Cosmopolitanism – Fungai Machirori 
-Chapter 6. YouTube Became the Place Where “I Could Breathe” and Start “to Sell my Mouth”: Congolese Refugee YouTubers in Nairobi, Kenya – Marie Godin and Bahati Ghislain 

Section III Affect and Belonging 
-Introduction to Section III: Affect and Belonging – Athina Karatzogianni 
-Chapter 7. Digital Communication, Transnational Relationships and the Making of Place Among Highly Skilled Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic – Elisabetta Costa 
-Chapter 8. When Immovable Bodies Meet Unstoppable Media Circulation:
The Aporetic Body in Digital Migration Studies – Nishant Shah 
-Chapter 9. Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies – Yener Bayramoğlu 

Section IV Visuality and Digital Media 
-Introduction to Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media – Giorgia Aiello 
-Chapter 10. Migrant Agency and Platformed Belongings: The Case of TikTok –
Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, Amanda Alencar and Yan Asadchy 
-Chapter 11. Affective Performances of Rooted Cosmopolitanism Through Facebook During the Festival International de Folklore et de Percussion in Louga, Senegal –  Estrella Sendra 
-Chapter 12. Situating the Body in Digital Migration Research: Embodied Methodologies for Analysing Virtual Reality Films on Displacement – Moé Suzuki 

Section V Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization 
-Introduction to Section V: Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization – Saskia Witteborn 
-Chapter 13. The Weaponization of Datafied Sound: The Case of Voice
Biometrics in German Asylum Procedures – Daniel Leix Palumbo 
-Chapter 14. McKinsey Consultants and Technocratic Fantasies: Crafting the Illusion of Orderly Migration Management in Greece – Luděk Stavinoha 
-Chapter 15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life – 
Kaarina Nikunen and Sanna Valtonen 

Section VI Conclusions 
Conclusions: On Doing Digital Migration Studies – Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi 

Three colleagues in the field provided the following blurbs: 
“It is impossible to study – hence intervene – against the injustices, inequalities, and cruelties experienced by international migrants today without negotiating a central paradox: digital technologies both empower (connectedness) and disempower (datafication), often simultaneously, international migrants in search of a liveable life. This superb book takes the centre stage in showing how activists – migrants, scholars, and citizens – are negotiating this paradox by investigating everyday practices with meticulous detail and theoretical astuteness.”
– Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of London

“Doing Digital Migration Studies is an important and insightful contribution that
sheds a much-needed light on the complex and ever-evolving relationship between migration and digital media.”
‒ Sara Marino, London College of Communication

“Incisive and exhaustive, this collection carves out new paths of inquiry in media
and migration studies while retelling the field’s rich and long histories. Scholars and practitioners working around the edges of critical data studies, the anthropology of aid, and the sociology of migration are particularly in for a special treat.”
‒ Jonathan Corpus Ong, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Dutch Research Council (NOW) open access funding made it possible for us to make the book accessible. Big thanks also to Kathi Amman and Isha Lahiri, who kept this publication enterprise on track.