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.
Part One: Keywords and Legacies
Part Two: Methodologies
Part Three: Communities
Part Four: Representations
Part Five: Borders and Rights
Part Six: Spatialities
Part Seven: Conflicts
Daftar Isi
Prologue: Decolonial Healing – Tabita Rezaire
Editorial Introduction: Media and Migration: Research Encounters – Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn & Radhika Gajjala
Part 1: Keywords
Chapter 1: Mediation – Radha S. Hegde
Chapter 2: Diaspora as a Frame: How the Notion has Reshaped Migration Studies – Roza Tsagarousianou
Chapter 3: Postcolonial Theory – Sandra Ponzanesi
Chapter 4: Borders – Lilie Chouliaraki & Myria Georgiou
Chapter 5: Transnationalism, Inter-nationalism and Multicultural Questions – Koichi Iwabuchi
Chapter 6: Migration and the post-secular – Eva Midden
Chapter 7: Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene – Miyase Christensen
Chapter 8: Intersectionality – Alyssa Fisher, Kaitlyn Wauthier, & Radhika Gajjala
Chapter 9: Affect, Emotions and Feelings – Donya Alinejad & Domitilia Olivieri
Chapter 10: Connected Migrants – Dana Diminescu
Chapter 11: Digital Divides – Linda Leung
Chapter 12: Information Precarity – Melissa Wall
Chapter 13: Infrastructures – Koen Leurs
Chapter 14: The Political Economy of Digital Media, Migration and Race – Eugenia Siapera
Chapter 15: Beyond Media Studies of Migration – Kevin Robins
Chapter 16: Insurgent Academics – Roopika Risam
Part 2: Methodologies
Chapter 17: On Researching Climates of Hostility and Weathering – Yasmin Gunaratnam
Chapter 18: Refracting the Analytical Gaze: Studying Media Representations of Migrant Death at the Border – Karina Horsti
Chapter 19: Racializing Space. Gendering Place: Black Feminism, Ethnography, and Methodological Challenges Online and IRL – Kishonna Gray
Chapter 20: Mobile Methods: Doing Migration Research with the Help of Smartphones – Katja Kaufmann
Chapter 21: Mobility, Media, and Data Politics – Will L. Allen
Chapter 22: Twitter Influentials and the Networked Publics′ Engagement with the Rohingya Crisis in Arabic and English – Ahmed Al-Rawi
Part 3: Communities
Chapter 23: The Performative Digital Africa: i ROKOtv, Nollywood Televisuals, and Community Building in the African Digital Diaspora – Tori Omega Arthur
Chapter 24: Queer Migration and Digital Culture – Lukasz Szulc
Chapter 25: Out of Place: Refugees Navigating Nation, Self, and Culture in Former East Germany – Emily Edwards
Chapter 26: (Re)loading Identity and Affective Capital Online: The case of Diaspora Basques on Facebook – Pedro J. Oiarzabal
Chapter 27: Russophone Diasporic Journalism: Production and Producers in the Changing Communicative Landscape – Olga Voronova, Liudmila Voronova, & Dmitry Yagodin
Chapter 28: Airtime and the public sphere: Candela Radio’s contribution to the integration of immigrant communities in the Basque Country – Irati Agirreazkuenaga & Estitxu Garai-Artetxe
Chapter 29: Recasting Home: Indian Immigrants and the World Wide Web – Madhavi Mallapragada
Chapter 30: Migrations and the Media between Asia and Latin America: Japanese Brazilians in Tokyo and Sao Paulo – Jessica Retis
Part 4: Borders and Rights
Chapter 31: Borders and the Contagious Nature of Mediation – Huub Dijstelbloem
Chapter 32: The Oromo Movement and Ethiopian Border-making Using Social Media – Payal Arora
Chapter 33: Digital Humanitarianism in a Refugee Camp – Léa Macias
Chapter 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, & Cecilia Cienfuegos
Chapter 35: Young Displaced Women in Colombia and Media Use – Melissa Chacon
Chapter 36: Communication Rights for Immigrants – Cees Hamelink & Maria Hagan
Part 5: Representations
Chapter 37: Migration, Race/Ethnicity and Sports Media Content – Jacco van Sterkenburg
Chapter 38: Immigrant Families in European Cinema – Daniela Beghahn
Chapter 39: Breaking the Silence: From Representations of Victims and Threat Towards Spaces of Voice – Kaarina Nikunen
Chapter 40: Making Space for Oneself: Minorities and Self-Representation in Popular Media – Rosemary Pennington
Chapter 41: Representations from a Multi-Stakeholders Perspective: A Research Agenda – Leen d′Haenens & Willem Joris
Part 6: Spatialities
Chapter 42: The Migration-Mobility Nexus: The Politics of Interface, Labor and Gender – Saskia Witteborn & Zhuoxiao Xie
Chapter 43: The Cog that Imagines the System: Data Migration and Migrant Bodies in the Wake of Aadhaar – Nishant Shah
Chapter 44: Automation versus Nationalism: Challenges to the Future of Work in the Software Industry – Nilanjan Raghunath
Chapter 45: Civic Media, & Placemaking; (Re)Claiming Urban & Migrant Rights Across Digital and Physical Spaces – Giota Alevizou
Chapter 46: Digital Place-Making Practices and Daily Struggles of Venezuelan Refugees in Brazil – Amanda Paz Alencar
Chapter 47: Being at Home on Social Media: Online Place-Making among the Kurds in Turkey and Rural Migrants in China – Elisabetta Costa & Jin Xie Wang
Chapter 48: You Tube as an Intercultural Space: Digital Narratives of Younger-Generation Migrants – Sherry Yu
Part 7: Conflicts
Chapter 49: Racisms, Migration and Media: A Reflection on Mutable Understandings and Shifting ′Problem Populations′ – Gavan Titley
Chapter 50: Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and Mobilization on the Internet – Mattias Ekman
Chapter 51: National Politics, Transnational Resistance: Alevi Television during the State of Emergency in Turkey (2016-2018) – Kumru Berfin Emin Cetin
Chapter 52: Diaspora Activism in Host and Home Countries: Motivations, Possibilities and Limits – Christine Ogan
Chapter 53: Media, Recognition and Conflict-Generated Diaspora: the Somali Diaspora as a Case Study – Idil Osman
Chapter 54: Conflict and Migration in Lebanese Graphic Narratives – Rasha Chatta
Epilogue: On Giving and Being a Voice – Zaina Erhaim, Yazan Badran, & Kevin Smets
Epilogue: Self-Reflections on Migration and Exile – Bermal Aydin
Tentang Penulis
Koen Leurs is an Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Program of the Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Leurs is a digital migration studies scholar interested in digital practices of migrants and digital governmentality of migration. He combines mixed methods with creative, participatory and digital approaches. He is PI in the project ‘Co-Designing a Fair Digital Asylum System’ (2022–2023). He was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Previously, he chaired the ‘Diaspora, Migration and the Media’ section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA, 2016-2021). Recently, Leurs co-edited the Handbook of media and migration (Sage, 2020) and special issues on ‘Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements’ for the International Journal of Cultural Studies (2023), ‘Digital migration practices and the everyday’ for Communication, Culture & Critique and ‘Inclusive media literacy education for diverse societies’ for Media and Communication (2022). His previous monograph is Digital passages. Diaspora, gender and youth cultural intersections (Amsterdam University Press, 2015).