Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. List of Figures and Tables 11
4. Acknowledgements 13
5. Doing Digital Migration Studies: Introduction Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi 17
6. Section I Creative practices
7. Introduction to Section I: Creative Practices 45
8. 1. Against and Beyond Mimeticism : A Cinematic Ethics of Migration Journeys in Documentary Auto- Ethnography 49
9. 2. Archival Participatory Filmmaking in Migration and Border Studies 67
10. 3. Embodying Data, Shifting Perspective : A Conversation with Ahnjili Zhuparris on Future Wake 89
11. Section II Digital Diasporas and Placemaking
12. Introduction to Section II: Digital Diasporas and Placemaking 109
13. 4. Friendship, Connection and Loss : Everyday Digital Kinning and Digital Homing among Chinese Transnational Grandparents in Perth, Australia 113
14. 5. An Exploration of African Digital Cosmopolitanism 133
15. 6. YouTube Became the Place Where “I Could Breathe” and Start “to Sell my Mouth” : Congolese Refugee YouTubers in Nairobi, Kenya 153
16. Section III Affect and Belonging
17. Introduction to Section III: Affect and Belonging 175
18. 7. Digital Communication, Transnational Relationships and the Making of Place Among Highly Skilled Migrants during the Covid-19 Pandemic 181
19. 8. When Immovable Bodies Meet Unstoppable Media Circulation : The Aporetic Body in Digital Migration Studies 197
20. 9. Queer Digital Migration Research: Two Case Studies 215
21. Section IV Visuality and Digital Media
22. Introduction to Section IV: Visuality and Digital Media 235
23. 10. Migrant Agency and Platformed Belongings: The Case of TikTok 239
24. 11. Affective Performances of Rooted Cosmopolitanism Through Facebook During the Festival International de Folklore et de Percussion in Louga, Senegal 259
25. 12. Situating the Body in Digital Migration Research : Embodied Methodologies for Analysing Virtual Reality Films on Displacement 279
26. Section V Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization
27. Introduction to Section V : Datafication, Infrastructuring and Securitization 299
28. 13. The Weaponization of Datafied Sound : The Case of Voice Biometrics in German Asylum Procedures 303
29. 14. McKinsey Consultants and Technocratic Fantasies : Crafting the Illusion of Orderly Migration Management in Greece 323
30. 15. Undocumented and Datafied: Anticipation, Borders and Everyday Life 343
31. Section VI Conclusions
32. Conclusions: On Doing Digital Migration Studies 365
33. Index 381