A Key to Home

Illuminating the Role of the SIM Card in Refugee Resettlement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21829769
AutoresLiz Hingley (autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen13
Número2
Páginas105-121
Fecha de publicación2022-11-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaImaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1918-8439 • E-ISSN: 1918-8439
EditorialUniversity of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17742/image.tp.13.2.5
OpenAlexW4308644668
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas13

This paper considers how creative research mediated by mobile devices might contribute to upending inherited notions of refugee powerlessness and passivity in galleries and museums. A collaborative project, undertaken in 2019, explored the significance of SIM cards in forging a sense of security, identity, and belonging for Syrian refugees on a resettlement program in the U.K. This “opening up” the “body” of the smartphone in the process of creating artworks reveals the urgent need for deeper appreciation of the meaning and materiality of personal digital ecosystems (Blanke & Pybus 2020) for refugees negotiating a sense of home

Aesthetics · Art · Computer security · Ethnography · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage