[Air-L] Refugee & Forced Migration HCI Research: Help Request

Tue Jan 23 08:07:45 PST 2018

There's also an upcoming special issue of American Behavioral Scientist on "Refugee Communication in the Digital Age”, edited by Daniela Dimitrova and Colleen Connolly-Ahern. My colleagues and I have a paper titled Making Sense of Refugees Online: Perspective Taking, Political Imagination, and Internet Memes that will appear in that issue. I’d be glad to share the accepted version if it’s of interest. 

Ioana.

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Ioana Literat, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design
Teachers College, Columbia University 
literat at tc.columbia.edu 
http://ioanaliterat.com 

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 8:32 AM, Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) <K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl> wrote:
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> Dear Amirah,
> 
> There are a couple of publications from the field of media/internet/cultural studies which might be of interest to you – hope this helps, and can you kindly share the list you are creating?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Koen. 
> 
> I) In February, a special issue will come out in Social Media + Society on the topic of Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe, edited by Kevin Smets and myself. This will consist of articles authored from various fields including HCI. 
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> Five questions for digital migration studies: learning from digital connectivity and forced migration in(to) Europe	
> Koen Leurs, Utrecht University  
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> The mediation of hope. Digital Technologies and Affective Affordances within Iraqi Refugee Households in Jordan	
> Mirjam Twigt, University of Leicester
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> Anti-refugee mobilization in social media: The case of Soldiers of Odin 	
> Mattias Ekman,  Örebro University 
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> The Ambivalent Potentials of Social Media Use by Unaccompanied Minor Refugees 	
> Nadia Kutscher, Universität Vechta
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> Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe:  Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances	
> Marie Gillespie, Open University
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> Smart Refugees How Syrian Asylum Migrants use Social Media Information in Migration Decision-making 	
> Rianne Dekker, Utrecht University
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> The best, the worst and hardest to find: how people, mobiles, and social media connect migrants in(to) europe 	
> Maren Borkert, Technical University Berlin
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> On Digital Passages and Borders –Refugees and the New Infrastructure for Movement and Control 	
> Mark Latonero (Data & Society Research Institute / New York University / USC Annenberg)
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> Refugees and network publics on Twitter	
> Eugenia Siapera, Dublin City University 
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> Connected routes: Migration studies with digital devices and platforms 	
> Natalia Sánchez-Querubín,  University of Amsterdam
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> Rerouting the Narrative:  Mapping the Online Identity Politics of the Tamil and Palestinian Diaspora	
> Priya Kumar, Ryerson University
> 
> 
> II) Popular Communication 16(1) special issue on Connected migrants, edited by Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi
> 
> Introduction to the issue:
> This special issue features digital migration research as first presented during the Connected Migrants Academy Colloquium and Masterclasses that took place December 14–16, 2016, at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Taking a cue from Dana Diminescu’s seminal manifesto on “the connected migrant,” this special issue introduces the notions of encapsulation and cosmopolitanism to understand digital migration studies. The pieces here present a nonbinary, integrated notion of an increasingly digitally mediated cosmopolitanism that accommodates differences within but also recognizes Europe’s colonial legacy and the fraught postcolonial present. Of special interest is an essay by the late Zygmunt Bauman, who argues that the messy boundaries of Europe require a renewed vision of cosmopolitan Europe, based on dialogue and aspirations, rather than on Eurocentrism and universal values. In the introductory article, we focus on three overarching discussions informing this special issue: (a) an appreciation of the so-called “refugee crisis” and the articulation of conflicting Europeanisms, (b) an understanding of the relationships between the concepts of cosmopolitanization and encapsulation, and (c) a recognition of the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of digital migration studies.
> 
> Table of contents:
> Zygmunt Bauman: Between separation and integration: Strategies of cohabitation in the era of diasporization and Internet (open access)
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> Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi: Connected migrants: Encapsulation and cosmopolitanization (open access)
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> Saskia Witteborn: The digital force in forced migration: Imagined affordances and gendered practices
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> Alexander Dhoest: Complicating cosmopolitanism: Ethno-cultural and sexual connections among gay migrants
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> Myria Georgiou: Does the subaltern speak? Migrant voices in digital Europe
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> Roopika Risam: Now you see them: Self-representation and the refugee selfie
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> Sanjay Sharma & Jasbinder Nijjar: The racialized surveillant assemblage: Islam and the fear of terrorism
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> You can find the issue online here: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/16/1?nav=tocList.
> 
> 
> These are additional references which could be of interest:
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> Alencar, A. (2017). Refugee integration and social media: A local and experiential perspective. Information, Communication & Society, 1–16. Advance online publication 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1340500.
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> Andrade, A. D., & Doolin, B. (2016). Information and communication technology and the social inclusion of refugees. MIS Quarterly, 40(2), 405–416
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> Baldassar, L., Nedelcu, M., Merla, L., & Wilding, R. (2016). ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the premise of face-to-face proximity in sustaining relationships. Global Networks, 16(2), 133–144
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> Bernal, V. (2014). Nation as network. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
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> Brinkerhoff, J. (2009). Digital diasporas: Identity and transnational engagement. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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> Chen, W. (2010). Internet-usage patterns of immigrants in the process of intercultural adaptation. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 13, 387–399
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> Codagnone, C., & Kluzer, S. (2011). ICT for the social and economic tntegration of migrants into Europe. European Commission. Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. Retrieved from http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC63183.pdf
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> Conversi, D. (2012). Irresponsible radicalization: Diasporas, globalization and long-distance nationalism in the digital age. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38(9), 1357–1379.
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> Damian, E., & Van Ingen, E. (2014). Social network site usage and personal relations of migrants. Societies, 4(4), 640–653
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> H. Dijstelbloem & A. Meijer (Eds.), Migration and the new technological borders of Europe (pp. 1–21). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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> Diminescu, D. (2008). The connected migrant: An epistemological manifesto. Social Science Information, 47(4), 565–579.
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> Diminescu, D. (2012). Introduction: Digital methods for the exploration, analysis and mapping of e-diasporas. Social Science Information, 51(4), 451–458
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> Gajjala, R. (2008). South Asian technospaces and ‘Indian’ digital diasporas. In R. Gajjala & V. Gajjala (Eds.), South Asian technospaces (pp. 37–48). New York, NY: Peter Lang
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> Gifford, S. M., & Wilding, R. (2013). Digital escapes? ICTs, settlement and belonging among Karen youth in Melbourne, Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies, 26(4), 558–575
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> Hegde, R. S. (2016). Mediating migration. Cambridge, UK: Polity
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> Leurs, K. (2017). Communication rights from the margins. Politicizing young refugees’ smart phone pocket archives. The International Communication Gazette, 79(6–7), 674–698.
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> Literat, I. (2017). Refugee selfies and the (self-)representation of disenfranchised social groups. Media Fields Journal, 12. Retrieved from http://mediafieldsjournal.squarespace.com/storage/issue-12-migrations/pdfs/Literat.pdf
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> Maitland, C., & Xu, Y. (2015). A social informatics analysis of refugee mobile phone use: A case study of Za’atari Syrian refugee camp. TPRC 43: The 43rd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy Paper. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2588300 
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> Miller, D., & Slater, D. (2000). The internet. An ethnographic approach. Oxford, UK: Berg
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> Moss, D. M. (2016). The ties that bind: Internet communication technologies, networked authoritarianism, and voice in the Syrian diaspora. Globalizations, 1–18.Epub ahead of print. doi:10.1080/14747731.2016.126307
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> Ponzanesi, S., & Leurs, K. (2014). On digital crossings in Europe. Crossings, Journal of Migration and Culture, 5(1), 3–22
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> Trimikliniotis, N., Parsanoglou, D., & Tsianos, V. (2015). Mobile commons, migrant digitalities and the right to the city. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan
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> Wall, M., Campbell, M. O., & Janbek, D. (2017). Syrian refugees and information precarity. New Media & Society, 19(2), 240–254
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> Witteborn, S. (2015). Becoming (im)perceptible. Forced migrants and virtual practice. Journal of Refugee Studies, 28(3), 350–367
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> Met vriendelijke groet,
> 
> Koen.
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> On 23/01/18 01:24, "Air-L on behalf of Carleen Maitland" <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of cmaitland at ist.psu.edu> wrote:
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>    Hi Amirah,
> 
>    I have an edited volume coming out in April: Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons (MIT Press). It is not exclusively HCI but will provide important contextual information that would likely be of interest to HCI researchers. 
> 
>    There have also been several papers at the ACM ICTD conferences in the past few years.
> 
>    Best of luck and I look forward to your list!
> 
>    Carleen
> 
>    Carleen Maitland
>    http://cmaitland.ist.psu.edu/
>    Associate Professor | College of Information Sciences and Technology
>    Co-Director | Institute for Information Policy
>    Penn State University
>    ________________________________________
>    From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Amirah Majid <amirah at uw.edu>
>    Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 3:43 PM
>    To: aoir list
>    Subject: [Air-L] Refugee & Forced Migration HCI Research: Help Request
> 
>    Dear AOIR Community,
> 
>    We are a group of interdisciplinary HCI researchers focusing on the
>    technology related issues of people experiencing forced migration, such as
>    refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced, and the undocumented.
> 
>    This year at the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
>    (GROUP) we came together in a workshop called, ‘Refugees & Technology:
>    Determining the Role of HCI Research’, links below. As a result of this
>    workshop we would like to build a curated list of scholarly resources that
>    support generative and ethical research in the area of Forced Migration -
>    HCI studies. We intend to make this list publicly available in order to
>    support this growing research area.
> 
>    We are asking for your help! If you know of HCI-related refugee or forced
>    migration work, or other resources that you think could inform and support
>    this work, could you send us the citation or link? Resources we are looking
>    for include scholarly texts, projects, conferences, or anything else you
>    think could help. Bookmark the workshop website for updates to this
>    community resource!
> 
>    Thank you in advance for your help!
> 
>    Sincerely,
> 
>    Amirah Majid on behalf of the workshop participants.
> 
>    Please send replies to: amirah at uw.edu.
> 
>    Links:
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>    ACM GROUP Conference, https://group.acm.org/conferences/group18/
> 
>    Refugees & Technology: Determining the Role of HCI Research Workshop,
>    http://displaced-hci.info/
> 
>    *___________________*
> 
> 
>    *A. M. Majidأميرة ماجد‬‎*
>    she/her pronouns
>    PhD candidate: multi-cultural computing & refugee informatics
>    Information School, University of Washington Seattle USA
>    https://users.resist.ca/~amirah/
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