[Commlist] New book: Migration in the Digital Age

/Migration in the Digital Age: An Ethnographic Study/, published by 
Intellect Books and distributed by the University of Chicago Press.

The book examines how digital media have transformed the migration 
experience, focusing on Central American migration to the United States, 
one of the largest migratory corridors in the world. It analyzes the 
socio-technical affordances of smartphones and explores the 
communication practices migrants engage in while using mobile media. The 
study highlights the mutual influence between media technologies and 
human mobility.

Reviews:

"A much-needed exploration of the smartphone's role in the Central 
American migration experience, revealing its dual function as both a 
tool of connection and a source of vulnerability. Through captivating 
ethnographic insights, the author shows how smartphones serve as 
lifelines, providing emotional and social support while also exposing 
migrants to increased surveillance."
— Saskia Witteborn, PhD, Professor, School of Journalism and 
Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

"Empirically rich, theoretically generative, and ethically grounded, 
this reflexive, agency-centric ethnography offers a decolonial, feminist 
critique of techno-solutionism and disruption while centering migrants 
as knowledge producers and digital agents of survival and care. By 
tracing how smartphones are used ambivalently to mediate movement, 
connectivity, intimacies, and surveillance, Ferris-Dobles re-humanizes 
people on the move."
— Koen Leurs, Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration, 
Utrecht University

"The exploration of 'hybrid migration,' with its focus on how technology 
permeates the entire process of human migration on both intimate/micro 
and infrastructural/macro levels, advances critical theoretical insight 
while offering a starting point for discussions about policy and design 
considerations in the lives of migrants and refugees."
— Steve Jones, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Communication, University 
of Illinois Chicago

Michele Ferris-Dobles is a professor and researcher in media and 
communication at the University of Costa Rica, Central America.

Please find the link to the book here:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/migration-in-the-digital-age 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/migration-in-the-digital-age>



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