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

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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