
Urban Refugees and Digital Technology
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Urban Refugees and Digital Technology draws on contemporary data gathered from refugee communities in Bogota, Nairobi, and Kuala Lumpur to build a new theoretical understanding of how technological change influences the ways urban refugees contribute to the social, economic, and political networks in their cities of arrival. This data is presented against the broader history of technological change in urban areas since the start of industrialization, showing how displaced people across time have used technologized urban spaces to shape the societies where they settle. The case studies and history demonstrate how refugees' interactions with environments that are often hostile to their presence spur novel adaptations to idiosyncratic features of a city's technological landscape.
A wide-ranging study across histories and geographies of urban displacement, Urban Refugees and Digital Technology introduces readers to the myriad ways technological change creates spaces for urban refugees to build rich political, social, and economic lives in cities.
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"This strongly theorized and historically aware study, presenting rich empirical material, will shape the emergent interdisciplinary research area of digital migration studies, with potential to positively influence policy and planning. The book offers key new insights on an understudied population while avoiding a tokenistic account. Charles Martin-Shields innovatively combines contemporary and historical approaches to offer new conceptual understandings of refugee integration." Koen Leurs, Utrecht University and author of Digital Migration "Two of the most notable features of modern urban life are the global development of refugee and other migrant communities in cities and the prevalence of digital communication in nearly all activities. Martin-Shields makes an interesting and useful contribution by linking issues of digital technology and urban refugees in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Recommended. General readers, through faculty; professionals" Choice "Martin-Shields makes an interesting and useful contribution by linking issues of digital technology and urban refugees in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The book's most helpful policy suggestion may be the need for more attention to refugees' use of the digital infrastructure from local governments and international agencies." ChoiceMore details
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