[Ethnocomm] Saskia Witteborn in special issue on Connected migrants published in Popular Communication 16(1)

[Nadezhda Sotirova]

Subject: [ecrea] special issue on Connected migrants published in Popular
Communication 16(1)



We are happy to announce the publication of the Popular Communication
16(1) special issue on Connected migrants, edited by Koen Leurs & Sandra
Ponzanesi

Issue description: 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)



Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi: Connected migrants: Encapsulation and
cosmopolitanization (open access)

Saskia Witteborn: The digital force in forced migration: Imagined
affordances and gendered practices

Alexander Dhoest: Complicating cosmopolitanism: Ethno-cultural and
sexual connections among gay migrants

Myria Georgiou: Does the subaltern speak? Migrant voices in digital Europe

Roopika Risam: Now you see them: Self-representation and the refugee selfie

Sanjay Sharma & Jasbinder Nijjar: The racialized surveillant assemblage:
Islam and the fear of terrorism

You can find the issue online here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/16/1?nav=tocList.
With kind regards,

Koen Leurs & Sandra Ponzanesi



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Nadezhda Sotirova, Ph.D.
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