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Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora
Chicago: Rutgers University Press (2023), 205 pp.
"Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia's former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspi
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Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia
Chicago: Rutgers University Press (2023), 233 pp.
"Long before the COVID-19 crisis, Mexican Indigenous peoples were faced with organizing their lives from afar, between villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte and the urban districts of Los Angeles, as a result of unauthorized migration and the restrictive border between Mexico and the United States. B
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Enslaved. Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
Bamenda: Langaa (2023), xxix, 791 pp.
"Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a series of ‘black holes’, in which their access to digital
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Young African Diaspora: Global African Narratives, Media Consumption and Identity Formation
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 231-246
"This study focused on identity formation and media consumption among first-generation young Africans in the diaspora. It investigated what it means to be African and the impact of multiple identities and forms of belonging within diasporic communities. Emphasis was on how they experience the diaspo
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Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression
Minneapolis: Stanford University Press (2023), 252 pp.
"Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and sh
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Inkonsistent einseitig: Die Medienberichterstattung über Geflüchtete 2015–2020
Publizistik, volume 68 (2023), pp. 13-35
"Die Medienberichterstattung über Geflüchtete wird von einem großen Teil der deutschen Bevölkerung als einseitig wahrgenommen. Inhaltsanalysen zeigen allerdings sehr unterschiedliche Befunde: Während einige Studien eine einseitig positive Berichterstattung konstatieren, kommen andere zu dem Erg
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Migration Information Campaigns: How to Analyse Their Impact?
International Migration, volume 61, issue 6 (2023), pp. 47-57
"Information campaigns aim at discouraging potential migrants from leaving their countries irregularly. This article discusses how to analyse the impact of such campaigns by identifying different research lines in the literature. The impact of migration information campaigns may be explored by, firs
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Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xiv, 196 pp.
"This open access book brings into dialogue migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Migration has always been part of spiritual development. The current 'refugee crisis' has brought to the fore debates regarding the
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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The Experience of Peruvian Migrants
London: UCL Press (2023), xiii, 193 pp.
"Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile analyses the experience of ageing for Peruvian migrants aged around 60, who have lived in Chile for over 20 years. Their lives are informed by a series of experiences of being in between. They live between two coun
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"As press freedoms around the globe erode, journalists are building networks outsidetheir home countries to continue reporting." (Summary)
"Research on forcibly displaced people and their digital cultures have dominantly focused on utility-driven ends, primarily tied to goals of assimilation, social surveillance/tracking, economic betterment and other aid agencies’ specific agendas and outcomes. This approach negates much of their di
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Oakland’s Mayan Diaspora Overcomes Language Barriers and Finds Refuge in Radio B’alam
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 139-164
"Over one-million immigrants of Mayan descent live in the United States, but unlike other ethnic groups, Mayan diasporas struggle to create visibility, political and social capital, and acceptance through media. This case study used a qualitative methodology to analyze how Radio B’alam, the first
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Migrants, Refugees, and Societies
Washington, DC: World Bank (2023), xviii, 315 pp.
"Migration is a development challenge. About 184 million people—2.3 percent of the world’s population—live outside of their country of nationality. Almost half of them are in low- and middle-income countries. But what lies ahead? As the world struggles to cope with global economic imbalances,
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Migration Coverage in the African Media, a Literature Review
CoMMPASS Communicating Migration and Mobility (2023), 28 pp.
"[...] As part of doing politics, politicians are supposed to track and act on the push-pull factors being considered by the migrants or the would-be migrants. The media which also exists to promote the interest is supposed to moderate the exchange of the push-pull factors or likes and dislikes betw
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Framing Syrian refugees: Examining news framing effects on attitudes toward refugee admissions and anti-immigrant sentiment
Newspaper Research Journal, volume 44, issue 1 (2023), pp. 6-25
"This study investigates the effects of exposure to news frames on attitudes toward Syrian refugee admissions and anti-immigrant sentiment. Findings show that framing Syrian refugees, ranging from benefits, victims to a security threat did invoke changes of attitudes toward admitting Syrian refugees
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The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xviii, 509 pp.
"This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of
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