[Commlist] New book: Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday

Sandra Ponzanesi and Koen Leurs 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 
<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 
<https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87673>

This book was 3 years in the making showcasing research first presented 
at theconference "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 alsoto Kathi Amman and Isha 
Lahiri, who kept this publication enterprise on track.

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