[Commlist] CFP Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday

Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday which will take 
place on 21-22-23 April 2021.

    The submission deadline for panels is 31 January 2021. Abstracts 
can be submitted until 15 February 2021. For submission guidelines see 
below.


http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/home/conference/?fbclid=IwAR0eLZ819IJN7VSqtc1iAl8smdYlfL_cGjEqXpXo5iJ3tjayxnN1Utis9yY

    Detailed information:

    Call for papers

    Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of 
being in the world that cuts across national borders, shaping new forms 
of diasporic affiliations and transnational intimacy. This happens in 
ways that are different from the ways enabled by the communication 
technologies of the past. Scholarly attention has intensified around the 
question of how various new technical affordances of platforms and apps 
are shaping the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social 
worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives.

    This international conference focuses on the connection between the 
media and migration from different disciplinary vantage points. 
Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and 
personally identifying information, navigating spaces and reshaping the 
local and the global in the process is but one side of the coin of 
migrant-related technology use: this Janus-faced development also 
subjects individuals as well as groups to increased datafied migration 
management, algorithmic control and biometric classification as well as 
forms of transnational authoritarianism and networked repression.

    This conference pays particular attention to the everyday use of 
digital media for the support of transnational lives, emotional bonds 
and cosmopolitan affiliations, focusing also on the role digital media 
play in shaping local/urban and national diasporic formations. This is 
because it becomes increasingly important to give everyday digital media 
usage a central role in investigations of transnational belonging, 
digital intimacy, diasporic community (re)production, migrant subject 
formation, long-distance political participation, urban social 
integration and local/national self-organization.

    Therefore we need to examine individual and collective user 
practices within the wider historical and cultural contexts of media 
studies, cultural studies and postcolonial cultural studies scholarship, 
attuned to issues of politics and power, identity, geographies and the 
everyday. This also creates new challenges for cross-disciplinary 
dialogues that require an integration of ethnography with digital 
methods and critical data studies in order to look at the formation of 
identity and experience, representation, community building, and 
creating spaces of belongingness.

    Contributions are welcome from any field of study that engages with 
questions about how technology and social media usages mediate 
contemporary migration experiences, not only within media and 
communication studies, or digital and internet studies but also in 
neighbouring disciplines such as anthropology, postcolonial studies, 
gender studies, race studies, psychology, law, visual studies, conflict 
studies, criminology, sociology, critical theory, political theory and 
international relations.

    Contributions that explore non-media-centric entry points by 
focusing on users’ digital practices and foregrounding ethnographic 
exploration as a uniting framework are especially welcome.

    The conference is part of the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE, Digital 
Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging.

    The conference is organized in collaboration with the DMM section 
(Diaspora, Migration and the Media) of ECREA (European Communication 
Research and Education).

    Confirmed keynote speakers:     *Paul Gilroy
    *Engin Isin
    *Nicholas de Genova
    *Larissa Hjorth
    *Saskia Witteborn
    Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

        *Affective digital practices and the politics of emotion
        *Digital diaspora
        *Cosmopolitanism
        *Cities and urban belonging
        *Translocality and transnationalism
        *Co-presence and togetherness
        *Cultural capital
        *Migrant visualization
        *Appification of migration
        *Platformization of migrant lives
        *Gender and critical race
        *The migration industry of connectivity
        *Digital ethnography
        *Transnational authoritarianism
        *Networked conflicts
        *Datafication and surveillance

    SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

    Submissions for panels should be submitted via e-mail to 
(migrantbelongings /at/ uu.nl) by 31 January 2021.

        Submission for panels should include a chairperson, a rationale 
for the panel (250 words), and the names of three/four speakers 
including their abstract (250 words) and biographical note (150 words).

    Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the online 
submission system by 15 February 2021. Link: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeR3DQF2QUikj6LYJo21FFw6tZBDvjyVKZ84KO9q7pFy_yPFQ/viewform 

        Submissions for papers should include an abstract (max 300 
words) and short biographical note (150 words) about the author 
including her/his current position and interest in the field of digital 
media and migration.

    For further questions please mail: (migrantbelongings /at/ uu.nl).

    The PDF of this call for papers is available here: 
https://ecrea.eu/resources/Documents/Yellow-Simple-Official-Letterhead-2.pdf


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