The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration

Description

Migration moves people, ideas and things. Migration shakes up political scenes and instigates new social movements. It redraws emotional landscapes and reshapes social networks, with traditional and digital media enabling, representing, and shaping the processes, relationships and people on the move. The deep entanglement of media and migration expands across the fields of political, cultural and social life. For example, migration is increasingly digitally tracked and surveilled, and national and international policy-making draws on data on migrant movement, anticipated movement, and biometrics to maintain a sense of control over the mobilities of humans and things. Also, social imaginaries are constituted in highly mediated environments where information and emotions on migration are constantly shared on social and traditional media. Both, those migrating and those receiving them, turn to media and communicative practices to learn how to make sense of migration and to manage fears and desires associated with cross-border mobility in an increasingly porous but also controlled and divided world. The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration offers a comprehensive overview of media and migration through new research, as well as a review of present scholarship in this expanding and promising field. It explores key interdisciplinary concepts and methodologies, and how these are challenged by new realities and the links between contemporary migration patterns and its use of mediated processes. Although primarily grounded in media and communication studies, the Handbook builds on research in the fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, urban studies, science and technology studies, human rights, development studies, and gender and sexuality studies, to bring to the forefront key theories, concepts and methodological approaches to the study of the movement of people. In seven parts, the Handbook dissects important areas of cross-disciplinary and generational discourse for graduate students, early career researcher, migration management practitioners, and academics in the fields of media and migration studies, international development, communication studies, and the wider social science discipline. Contents List of Figures and Tables Notes on the Editors and Contributors Acknowledgements Prologue – Decolonial Healing: In Defense of Spiritual Technologies • Tabita Rezaire Editorial Introduction – Media and Migration: Research Encounters • Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn and Radhika Gajjala Part I: Keywords and Legacies 1 Mediation • Radha S. Hegde 2 Diaspora as a Frame: How the Notion Has Reshaped Migration Studies • Roza Tsagarousianou 3 Postcolonial Theory • Sandra Ponzanesi 4 Borders • Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou 5 Transnationalism, Inter-Nationalism and Multicultural Questions • Koichi Iwabuchi 6 Migration and the Postsecular • Eva Midden 7 Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene • Miyase Christensen 8 Intersectionality • Alyssa Fisher, Kaitlyn Wauthier, and Radhika Gajjala 9 Affect, Emotions, and Feelings • Donya Alinejad and Domitilla Olivieri 10 Researching the Connected Migrant • Dana Diminescu 11 Digital Divides • Linda Leung 12 Information Precarity • Melissa Wall 13 Migration Infrastructures • Koen Leurs 14 The Political Economy of Digital Media, Migration and Race • Eugenia Siapera 14 The Political Economy of Digital Media, Migration and Race • Eugenia Siapera 15 A Challenge for Media Studies of Migration: ‘As German as Me’ – Still Not Reconciled • Kevin Robins 16 Insurgent Academics • Roopika Risam Part II: Methodologies 17 On Researching Climates of Hostility and Weathering • Yasmin Gunaratnam 18 Refracting the Analytical Gaze: Studying Media Representations of Migrant Death at the Border • Karina Horsti 19 Racializing Space. Gendering Place: Black Feminism, Ethnography, and Methodological Challenges Online and “IRL” • Kishonna Gray 20 Mobile Methods: Doing Migration Research with the Help of Smartphones • Katja Kaufmann 21 Mobility, Media, and Data Politics • William L. Allen 22 Twitter Influentials and the Networked Publics’ Engagement with the Rohingya Crisis in Arabic and English • Ahmed Al-Rawi Part III: Communities 23 The Performative Digital Africa: iROKOtv, Nollywood Televisuals, and Community Building in the African Digital Diaspora • Tori Omega Arthur 24 Queer Migrants and Digital Culture • Lukasz Szulc 25 Out of Place: Refugees Navigating Nation, Self, and Culture in Former East Germany • Emily Edwards 26 (Re)loading Identity and Affective Capital Online: The Case of Diaspora Basques on Facebook • Pedro J. Oiarzabal 27 Russophone Diasporic Journalism: Production and Producers in the Changing Communicative Landscape • Olga Voronova, Liudmila Voronova and Dmitry Yagodin 28 Airtime and the Public Sphere: Candela Radio’s Contribution to the Integration of Immigrant Communities in the Basque Country • Irati Agirreazkuenaga and Estitxu Garai-Artetxe 29 Recasting Home: Indian Immigrants and the World Wide Web • Madhavi Mallapragada 30 Migrations and the Media between Asia and Latin America: Japanese-Brazilians in Tokyo and São Paulo • Jessica Retis Part IV: Borders and Rights 31 Borders and the Contagious Nature of Mediation • Huub Dijstelbloem 32 The Oromo Movement and Ethiopian Border-Making Using Social Media • Payal Arora 33 Digital Humanitarianism in a Refugee Camp • Léa Macias 34 The Politics of Vulnerability and Protection: Analysing the Case of LGBT Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Light of Securitization and Homonationalist Discourses • Christine Quinan, Dana Theewis, and Cecilia Cienfuegos 35 Gendered Emotional Consequences of Internal Displacement in Colombia • Melissa Chacón 36 Communication Rights for Migrants • Cees J. Hamelink and Maria Hagan Part V: Representations 37 Migration, Race/Ethnicity and Sport Media Content: An International Overview and Suggestions for a Future Research Agenda • Jacco van Sterkenburg 38 Immigrant Families in European Cinema • Daniela Berghahn 39 Breaking the Silence: From Representations of Victims and Threat towards Spaces of Voice • Kaarina Nikunen 40 Making Space for Oneself: Minorities and Self-Representation in Popular Media • Rosemary Pennington 41 Representational Strategies on Migration from a Multi-Stakeholder Perspective: A Research Agenda • Leen d’Haenens and Willem Joris Part VI: Spatialities 42 The Mobility–Migration Nexus: The Politics of Interface, Labor, and Gender • Zhuoxiao Xie and Saskia Witteborn 43 The Cog that Imagines the System: Data Migration and Migrant Bodies in the Face of Aadhaar • Nishant Shah 44 Automation versus Nationalism: Challenges to the Future of Work in the Software Industry • Nilanjan Raghunath 45 Civic Media and Placemaking: (Re)Claiming Urban and Migrant Rights Across Digital and Physical Spaces • Giota Alevizou 46 Digital Place-Making Practices and Daily Struggles of Venezuelan (Forced) Migrants in Brazil • Amanda Alencar 47 Being at Home on Social Media: Online Place-Making among the Kurdsin Turkey and Rural Migrants in China • Elisabetta Costa and Xinyuan Wang 48 Beyond the Third Space: New Communicative Spaces in the Making on YouTube • Sherry S. Yu Part VII: Conflicts 49 Racisms, Migration and Media: A Reflection on Mutable Understandings and Shifting ‘Problem Populations’ • Gavan Titley 50 Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and Mobilization on the Internet • Mattias Ekman 51 Transnational Resistance to Communicative Ethnocide: Alevi Television during the State of Emergency in Turkey (2016–18) • Kumru Berfin Emre Cetin 52 Diaspora Activism in Host and Home Countries: Motivations, Possibilities and Limits • Christine Ogan 53 Media, Recognition and Conflict-Generated Diasporas: The Somali Diaspora as a Case Study • Idil Osman 54 Conflict and Migration in Lebanese Graphic Narratives • Rasha Chatta Epilogue On Giving and Being a Voice • Zaina Erhaim, Yazan Badran and Kevin Smets Self-Reflections on Migration and Exile • Bermal Aydın Index