Mira Demirdirek
Biographic Data
| ID | 6897718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mira Demirdirek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mira |
| FAMILY NAME | Demirdirek |
| SIGNATURE | DEMIRDIREK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1925-177X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
My Phone Is Like My Office”: Refugee Women’s Social Media Entrepreneurship in Dar‐es‐Salaam
In this article, we explore the cases of two Congolese refugee women who have pivoted their social media engagements to entrepreneurship to offset their immobilization resulting from the Tanzanian asylum regime. The fear of losing access to mobile communications amid the introduction of biometric SIM card registration highlighted the critical importance of mobile telephony to the livelihoods of urban refugees in Dar‐es‐Salaam. Based on ethnograph…
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My Phone Is Like My Office”: Refugee Women’s Social Media Entrepreneurship in Dar‐es‐Salaam
In this article, we explore the cases of two Congolese refugee women who have pivoted their social media engagements to entrepreneurship to offset their immobilization resulting from the Tanzanian asylum regime. The fear of losing access to mobile communications amid the introduction of biometric SIM card registration highlighted the critical importance of mobile telephony to the livelihoods of urban refugees in Dar‐es‐Salaam. Based on ethnograph…
Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (1 works) · Entrepreneurship (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works) · Focus group (1 works) · Livelihood (1 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (1 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (1 works) · Mobile phone (1 works) · Phone (1 works) · Refugee (1 works)