Digital media, friendships and migrants’ entangled and non-linear inclusion and exclusion
In this article, I shed light on the role of digital media and friendships in migrants’ inclusion and exclusion. Connecting the empirical findings of a qualitative, non-media centric, multi-method study to existing research in digital migration studies, digital media and friendship as well as the li...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Urban studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 59, Issue: 16, Pages: 3330-3346 |
| ISSN: | 1360-063X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00420980221111994 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221111994 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/00420980221111994 
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| Author Notes: | Tabea Bork-Hüffer |
| Summary: | In this article, I shed light on the role of digital media and friendships in migrants’ inclusion and exclusion. Connecting the empirical findings of a qualitative, non-media centric, multi-method study to existing research in digital migration studies, digital media and friendship as well as the literature on inclusion and exclusion, I propose the concept of entangled inclusion and exclusion. This perspective underlines migrants’ continuous (re-) negotiations of their situatedness in the (trans-)local spaces of the places they come from, move to and through. While playing diverse roles in migrants’ development and maintenance of (trans-) local friendships, digital media contribute to non-linearities in migrants’ subjective feelings of being included or excluded, making the processes involved more complex while also serving as material and symbolic signifiers of entangled inclusion and exclusion. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 10.04.2025 First published: September 2, 2022 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1360-063X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00420980221111994 |