[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 
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                 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 
(tomigrantbelongings /at/ uu.nl) <mailto:(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 
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                     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) <mailto:(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 
<https://ecrea.eu/resources/Documents/Yellow-Simple-Official-Letterhead-2.pdf>

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