The Digital Empowerment-Control Nexus
Precarious Migrants, Migration Regimes and Digital Technologies
- 160 pages
- English
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The Digital Empowerment-Control Nexus
Precarious Migrants, Migration Regimes and Digital Technologies
About this book
This book analyses the diverse and complex interactions between the emancipatory practices of precarious (i.e. forced, vulnerable, undocumented or deported) migrants enabled by information and communication technologies, and the constraints imposed by technological tools used for surveillance and migration control. It explores the digital empowerment-control nexus by articulating the use of digital technologies - whether by migrants themselves, civil society actors or institutions - with their mediating role in the processes of empowerment, surveillance and migration control.
Based on original empirical studies, the chapters bring contrasting and complementary insights into the use of digital technologies as agentic and/or surveillance tools in different national and supranational contexts (Turkey, Mexico, the United States, Switzerland, France, Romania, Greece and the European Union) and from different disciplinary perspectives (anthropology, sociology, geography, media studies, law and deportation studies). Using different theoretical lenses, they demonstrate the varying degrees of (dis)entanglement between individual and institutional practices, at micro and macro levels.
Helping readers to understand the ambivalent role of digital technologies in (forced) migration processes, The Digital Empowerment-Control Nexus can be used as a resource by students, researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in digitally mediated migration practices and migration regimes. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction – Precarious migrants, migration regimes and digital technologies: the empowerment–control nexus
- 1 Empowering experiences of digitally mediated flows of information for connected migrants on the move
- 2 Navigating the Aegean Sea: smartphones, transnational activism and viapolitical in(ter)ventions in contested maritime borderzones
- 3 Bare life in an immigration jail: technologies of surveillance in U.S. pre-deportation detention
- 4 Deportation, smart borders and mobile citizens: using digital methods and traditional police activities to deport EU citizens
- 5 Bordering processes through the use of technology: the Turkish case
- 6 European instruments for the deportation of foreigners and their uses by France and Switzerland: the application of the Dublin III Regulation and Eurodac
- 7 The Schengen-wide entry ban: how are non-citizens’ personal data protected?
- Index