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Book SynopsisHow do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration?
As the numbers of people fleeing war, poverty, and environmental disaster reach unprecedented levels worldwide, states also step up their mechanisms of border control. In this, they rely on digital technologies, big data, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and institutional journalism to manage not only the flow of people at crossing-points, but also the flow of stories and images of human mobility that circulate among their publics.
What is the role of digital technologies is shaping migration today? How do digital infrastructures, platforms, and institutions control the flow of people at the border? And how do they also control the public narratives of migration as a crisis? Finally, how do migrants themselves use these same platforms to speak back and make themselves heard in the face of hardship and hostility?
Taking their case studies from the biggest migration e
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In a provocative contribution, Chouliaraki and Georgiou illuminate the exclusionary workings
of digital borders. This broad-ranging book launches a compelling critique of the constitutive
power of digital infrastructures in shaping the crisis of migration. Timely and topical, The Digital
Border will be essential reading across disciplines about transformations in border regimes.
* Radha S. Hegde, author of
Mediating Migration *
Provides a striking critical analysis of the mutations and workings of border regimes. While its
focus is the digitalization of border control, it more broadly places its analysis within an
understanding of the border as a field of tensions, shedding light on its territorial and symbolic
dimension as well as on the multiple regimes of securitization at work today.
* Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna *
The Digital Border’s contribution lies in many spaces but its ability to connect questions of power, technology, datafication, entrepreneurship, the commons and media narratives is impressive... That this book is timely goes without saying. It’s nuanced and thickly layered conceptual focus married to rich empirical cases does the work of appealing to different audiences at a time when imaginaries of crisis exist in a heightened form globally. As such, this book is the perfect companion to help debunk, re-imagine and understand the aggrieved world we find ourselves inhabiting in 2023. -- Ethnic and Racial Studies * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
This book ... is a loud and well-crafted call for fundamental human rights and a deep analytical work that critically explores the structures and practices of inequality in citizenship and mobility. The book reveals a complex combination of humanitarianism and dehumanization of border work based on a pedagogy of crisis in Western societies that has the security-migration nexus at its core. * Nordic Journal of Migration Research *
