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[Commlist] New book: Mediating the Refugee Crisis. Digital Solidarity, Humanitarian Technologies and Border Regimes

Thu Oct 01 11:11:50 GMT 2020



New book "Mediating the Refugee Crisis. Digital Solidarity, Humanitarian Technologies and Border Regimes <https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030535629>" with Palgrave Macmillan.

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This book looks at how Europe’s refugee crisis has provoked different political and humanitarian responses, all similarly driven by technology. The author first explores the transformation of Europe into an increasingly militarised space, where technologies are used to exercise surveillance and to distinguish between citizens and unwanted migrants. She then shifts the attention to refugees’ practices of connectivity by looking at how technologies are used by refugees to communicate, perform and resist their exile. Finally, the book examines the opportunities and challenges that characterise the impact of digital social innovation in humanitarian settings. By focusing on how technologies are used to promote solidarity in crisis contexts, the volume provides an original contribution to studying the role of /tech for good activism/ within the space of Fortress Europe. Based on interviews with refugees, digital humanitarians and social entrepreneurs, the book timely questions how power is exercised through technological means and what mediated resistance from the bottom-up can do to contrast Europe's repressive power.

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*Reviews* (full versions here <https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030535629#reviews>)

“Mediating the ‘refugee crisis’ is a well-researched book that reveals how the border is constituted as a performative and intensely mediated space that regulates transnational mobility but also Europe as a hierarchical political, ethical and communicative project. Marino’s sophisticated account shows how communication technologies become core to migration governance in Europe, but also how vital they are for migrants to contest and resist its repressive power” - *Myria Georgiou*, Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science

“The social justice oriented, critical vocabulary proposed by Marino is highly generative. The evocative concepts of ‘technologies-of-exile’, ‘technologies-in-exile’, ‘mindful filtering’, among others, will become important reference points for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary research area of digital migration studies. Opening up new research directions, this monograph is highly recommended to media and migration researchers, cultural geographers and anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists committed to understanding the intricacies of the techno-mediation of bordering, surveillance, humanitarianism and contestation”- *Koen Leurs*, Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University

"Dr. Marino’s pioneering book breaks a new ground in understanding more collective processes and the power dynamics involved in the appropriation of digital technologies in the context of the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. It provides important theoretical and empirical insights for interdisciplinary research in refugee studies, social sciences and technology, as well as for policymakers, practitioners, NGOs, refugee advocates, and refugee groups themselves" - *Amanda Alencar*, Assistant Professor, Department of Media & Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam

“The book offers a fascinating and novel reading of the praxis of solidarity in the form of digital humanitarianism, pertinent in the age of dissensus and polarization following the so-called ‘refugee and migration crisis’ in Europe. Avoiding techno-optimism, the book offers a theoretically robust and empirically comprehensive account of the relationship between technologies, mobilities and borders” - *Nicos Trimikliniotis*, Professor of Sociology and Director of Centre for Fundamental Rights, University of Nicosia, Cyprus


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