[Commlist] Conference registration for Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices & the Everyday

Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices & the Everyday is now open (21-23 
april 2021)

Click this link to 
register: https://migrantbelongings.sites.uu.nl/registration-form-general-audience/?fbclid=IwAR3q6GuFhUs8Qk9CeaEKVt1_G4Pa6UYGdKbc4mY41IAhOofpczconWCb94w
to join our keynotes and all 170+ presentations, alongside screenings, 
q&a’s with media makers, roundtables and our paper award ceremony, among 
others

The registration deadline is April 15, 2021.

We are tweeting the conference under the hashtag #migrantbelongings

Confirmed keynotes:
• Paul Gilroy (University College London)
• Engin Isin (Queen Mary, University of London)
• Nicholas de Genova (University of Houston)
• Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Melbourne)
• Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Theme description

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 individual 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 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.

See more here: https://migrantbelongings.sites.uu.nl/

Sandra Ponzanesi & Koen Leurs, conference convenors, on behalf of the 
conference team.
For more information, email (migrantbelongings /at/ uu.nl)

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