Digital Empowerment-Control Nexus

<p>This book analyses the diverse and complex interactions between the emancipatory practices of precarious (i.e. forced vulnerable undocumented or deported) migrants enabled by information and communication technologies and the constraints imposed by technological tools used for surveillance and migration control. It explores the <i>digital empowerment-control nexus</i> by articulating the use of digital technologies - whether by migrants themselves civil society actors or institutions - with their <i>mediating</i> role in the processes of empowerment surveillance and migration control.</p><p>Based on original empirical studies the chapters bring contrasting and complementary insights into the use of digital technologies as agentic and/or surveillance tools in different national and supranational contexts (Turkey Mexico the United States Switzerland France Romania Greece and the European Union) and from different disciplinary perspectives (anthropology sociology geography media studies law and deportation studies). Using different theoretical lenses they demonstrate the varying degrees of (dis)entanglement between individual and institutional practices at micro and macro levels.</p><p>Helping readers to understand the ambivalent role of digital technologies in (forced) migration processes <i>The Digital Empowerment-Control Nexus</i> can be used as a resource by students researchers practitioners and policymakers interested in digitally mediated migration practices and migration regimes. It was originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. </i></p>