Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday

This anthology is organized in five sections: Creative Practices; Digital Diasporas and Placemaking; Affect and Belonging; Visuality and digital media and Datafication, Infrastructuring, and Securitization. These sections focus on emerging key topics and debates in digital migration studies and are each introduced by international experts.

Koen Leurs is Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Programme, Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Currently, Leurs is PI of the Team Science project ＂Co-designing a fair digital asylum system＂, funded by the Digital Society and COMMIT, a public-private ICT research community (2022-2023). He chairs the Utrecht University wide Digital Migration Special Interest Group, part of the Governing the digital society focus area. He previously co-edited the Handbook of Media and Migration (Sage, 2020) and the special issues (Im)mobile entanglements (International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2023) and Inclusive media education for diverse societies (Media and Communication, 2022). His latest book is Digital Migration, 2023). See https: //www.uu.nl/staff/KHALeurs. Sandra Ponzanesi is Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands. She has published widely in the fields of media, postcolonial studies, digital migration and postcolonial cinema with a particular focus on postcolonial Europe from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. She is currently PI of the NWO Project VREM ＂Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament＂. Among her publications are: Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture (Suny, 2004), The Postcolonial Cultural Industry (Palgrave, 2014) and Gender, Globalisation and Violence (Routledge, 2014). She has co-edited among other Postcolonial Cinema Studies (Routledge, 2012), Postcolonial Transitions in Europe (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016), Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) and Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2023). More info: https: //www.uu.nl/staff/SPonzanesi