Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances
Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances
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DOI：
10.1177/2056305118764440
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发表时间：
2018-03-20
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Cheesman, Margie
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作者：
Gillespie, Marie;Osseiran, Souad;Cheesman, Margie
这项研究探讨了智能手机在难民旅程中的作用。它追踪了智能手机为促进信息，通信和移民流动提供的风险和可能性。在这项法国定性研究中，对于叙利亚和伊拉克难民的受访者来说，智能手机是生命线，与水和食物一样重要。他们提供旅行的规划、导航和文件，使他们能够与家人、朋友、走私者和帮助他们的人保持定期联系。然而，难民同时面临着新形式的剥削和智能手机的监视，因为移民是由走私者资助的，并被欧洲政策定为犯罪，而数字通道取决于一系列社会技术和材料组合。通过基础设施的透镜，我们捕捉到机会和脆弱性的辩证动态，以及在被迫移徙和数字连通性同时出现时出现的各种形式的复原力和团结。
This research examines the role of smartphones in refugees' journeys. It traces the risks and possibilities afforded by smartphones for facilitating information, communication, and migration flows in the digital passage to Europe. For the Syrian and Iraqi refugee respondents in this France-based qualitative study, smartphones are lifelines, as important as water and food. They afford the planning, navigation, and documentation of journeys, enabling regular contact with family, friends, smugglers, and those who help them. However, refugees are simultaneously exposed to new forms of exploitation and surveillance with smartphones as migrations are financialised by smugglers and criminalized by European policies, and the digital passage is dependent on a contingent range of sociotechnical and material assemblages. Through an infrastructural lens, we capture the dialectical dynamics of opportunity and vulnerability, and the forms of resilience and solidarity, that arise as forced migration and digital connectivity coincide.