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Digital routes, »digital migrants«: from empowerment to control over refugees’ digital footprints

Druzboslovne razprave, 2018-12, Vol.34 (89), p.143-163 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2018. This work is published under NOCC (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 0352-3608 ;EISSN: 1581-968X

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  • Title:
    Digital routes, »digital migrants«: from empowerment to control over refugees’ digital footprints
  • Author: Zavratnik, Simona ; Cukut Krilić, Sanja
  • Subjects: Communication studies ; digital migrants ; digital routes ; Empowerment ; erasure of electronic traces ; illegal returns ; Immigration policy ; Migrants ; Migration ; Migration Studies ; Postmodernism ; Public opinion ; refugee routes ; Refugees ; Rights ; Routes ; Smartphones ; Theory of Communication ; Transnationalism
  • Is Part Of: Druzboslovne razprave, 2018-12, Vol.34 (89), p.143-163
  • Description: The text studies how digitality and refugee routes intersect by focussing on the concepts of »connected migrants« and the digital footprints of refugee routes in transnational spaces. The smartphone is a key signifier of today’s refugee, and possession of one is questioned by government policies of legitimisation and public opinion perceptions of what constitutes a »genuine refugee«. These overlook the complex question of digital rights and migration’s embeddedness in the fluidity of the postmodern world. The text thus deals with the digital world’s ambivalence, which is not just a one-way relation of empowerment but entails the risk of complete control over a refugee’s body as well. We establish that an important shift has occurred in European policies, one most visible in the process of erasing the electronic traces of refugees on the move and the illegal return of refugees to the previous country on their way, the so-called »pushbacks«.
  • Publisher: Ljubljana: Slovenian Sociological Association
  • Language: English;Slovenian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0352-3608
    EISSN: 1581-968X
  • Source: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
    AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
    CEEOL: Open Access
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