Mobile communication and refugees
An analytical review of academic literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12911752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amanda Alencar (0000-0002-6668-1035, Erasmus University Rotterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soc4.12802 |
| OpenAlex | W3033328282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 70 |
Over the past decade, an expanding literature has explored the ways in which refugees rely on mobile communication technologies to stay in touch with a wider community and to access relevant information and services in their new places. Nevertheless, challenges linked to (a lack of) digital literacy and accessibility among refugees, and associated risks of technology use can negatively affect their empowerment and participation in a “mediatized” society. In light of the mutually shaping processes emerging between technology and society, this article provides an overview of studies focusing on the relationship between mobile communication practices and refugee lives under different circumstances. Using the concept of affordances as an analytic tool, this article looks into ways in which existing studies address the possibilities and vulnerabilities of mobile communications, the social conditions, and the agency of refugees in engaging with mobile technologies in the different temporal and spatial dimensions of their migration trajectories. Future studies should explore more collective processes and the power dynamics involved in the appropriation of mobile technologies by different migration actors
Affordance · Agency (philosophy · Appropriation · Digital Literacy · Empowerment · Information and Communications Technology · Mobile device · Mobile technology · Mobilities · Political science · Public relations · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Media and Politics
TikTok Trails
"Living in limbo"
Human Factors in Privacy Research
Undoing Nothing
Technology-mediated communication among migrant families separated by borders
Intergenerational Care and Intersecting Inequalities Among Transnational Families in Europe
Ambivalent Technologies
Digitalisation without detriment
Exploring the relationship between information and communication technology collective behaviors and sense of community
The impact of migration on intellectual capital
Digital inequalities among migrants in precarious situations in Italy
The ‘connected migrant’
Cyberhate among Ukrainian adolescents in war-torn Ukraine
The use and impact of digital interventions on mental health and wellbeing of forced migrants
Immigrant Influencers on TikTok
My Phone Is Like My Office”
Digitalization and Migration
Networked Migrants and De‐Networked Policies—Examining the Nexus of Migration Regimes and Experiences Through a Relational Lens
Doing Digital Migration Studies
Virtual Ethnography of Female Migrants
Digital reconstructions of home-making during shuttle refuge
I hope, one day, I will have the right to speak
It hurts my heart’
Dispositions of dis/trust
Is everyone alive
Disconnecting from my smartphone is a privilege I do not have
Online Political Participation of Refugees in Germany
Using WhatsApp messenger for health systems research
Allowing time to piece the puzzle together
Newsgames against hate speech in the refugee crisis
Periodismo de migraciones
Applying digital technologies in refugee contexts. Lessons learned from community engagement in Al Baqa’ refugee camp, Jordan
Technology for empowerment
Migrant digital placemaking for wellbeing
Reflecting the Smartphone’s (Imagined) Affordances in Refugee’s Journeys
Investigating the efficacy of the Amep Digital Literacies Framework and Guide for adult EAL settings
Infrastructural evolution
Bidi Bidi Creativity
Digital Technologies and Refugees’ Social Inclusion
Digital Inclusion of Migrants in Türkiye
Digital Tactics of Refugee Women
In Her Multimedia Words
Glitches in the Digitization of Asylum
Working from below
Visual Analysis and the Contentious Politics of the Radical Right
A Double-Edged Sword? The Role of Digital Technologies in Marriage and Divorce Among Syrian Refugees in Northern Jordan
Can technology break the invisible wall? Exploring mobile application needs and preferences among North Korean refugees in South Korea
The temporal identity work of digitally connected migrants
Linking with migrants
Ethical Dilemmas, Rewards, and Lessons for the Future
Understanding Social Media Dependency, and Uses and Gratifications as a Communication System in the Migration Era
Sources of Social Capital Among Syrian Refugees in Informal Tented Settlements in Lebanon
Resilience, smartphone use and language among urban refugees in the Global south
Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies
The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration
Smart(phone) travelling
The digital divide and social inclusion among refugee migrants
Social media, digital video and health promotion in a culturally and linguistically diverse Australia
Peer support groups, mobile phones and refugee women in Melbourne
Social Media and Forced Migration
Prospects of Refugee Integration in the Netherlands
Navigating a new life
Refugee integration and social media
Is the smartphone always a smart choice? Against the utilitarian view of the ‘connected migrant’
Technology’s Refuge
Becoming Mobile After Detention
Connecting Homeland and Borders Using Mobile Telephony
Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe
The Best, the Worst, and the Hardest to Find
The politics of transnational affective capital
Forced migrants, emotive practice and digital heterotopia
Countering isolation with the use of technology
Practicing critical media literacy education with/for young migrants
Communication rights from the margins
The gap between here and there
The digital force in forced migration
Connected migrants
Syrian refugees and information precarity
Digital (dis)connectivity in fraught contexts
Mobiles and ‘making do’
Social connectedness and mobile phone use among refugee women in Australia
Digital Escapes? ICTs, Settlement and Belonging among Karen Youth in Melbourne, Australia
Becoming (Im)Perceptible
Tracing pathways to higher education for refugees
Transnational connectivity and the affective paradoxes of digital care labour
Media and immobility
Information seeking, technology use, and vulnerability among migrants at the United States–Mexico border
The smartphone as a lifeline
Self-represented witnessing
Disrupted becomings
Five Questions for Digital Migration Studies
Media Practices and Forced Migration
When the phone stops ringing
Refugees, Post-Migration Stress, and Internet Use
Syrian Refugee Youth Use Social Media
Digital Resilience Tactics of Syrian Refugees in the Netherlands
Future Anthropology Ethics and Datafication
Smart Refugees
The Ambivalent Potentials of Social Media Use by Unaccompanied Minor Refugees
On Digital Passages and Borders
The Mediation of Hope
Rethinking the Digital Divide
There is no Future in Humanitarianism
Technologies, Texts and Affordances
Now I'm Part of Australia and I Need to Know What Is Happening Here
| Unique citing works | 54 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 9 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 52 |