The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration

Koen Leurs is an Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Program of the Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Leurs is a digital migration studies scholar interested in digital practices of migrants and digital governmentality of migration. He combines mixed methods with creative, participatory and digital approaches. He is PI in the project 'Co-Designing a Fair Digital Asylum System' (2022-2023). He was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Previously, he chaired the 'Diaspora, Migration and the Media' section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA, 2016-2021). Recently, Leurs co-edited the Handbook of media and migration (Sage, 2020) and special issues on 'Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements' for the International Journal of Cultural Studies (2023), 'Digital migration practices and the everyday' for Communication, Culture & Critique and 'Inclusive media literacy education for diverse societies' for Media and Communication (2022). His previous monograph is Digital passages. Diaspora, gender and youth cultural intersections (Amsterdam University Press, 2015).

Prologue: Decolonial Healing - Tabita Rezaire Editorial Introduction: Media and Migration: Research Encounters - Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn & Radhika Gajjala Part 1: Keywords Chapter 1: Mediation - Radha S. Hegde Chapter 2: Diaspora as a Frame: How the Notion has Reshaped Migration Studies - Roza Tsagarousianou Chapter 3: Postcolonial Theory - Sandra Ponzanesi Chapter 4: Borders - Lilie Chouliaraki & Myria Georgiou Chapter 5: Transnationalism, Inter-nationalism and Multicultural Questions - Koichi Iwabuchi Chapter 6: Migration and the post-secular - Eva Midden Chapter 7: Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene - Miyase Christensen Chapter 8: Intersectionality - Alyssa Fisher, Kaitlyn Wauthier, & Radhika Gajjala Chapter 9: Affect, Emotions and Feelings - Donya Alinejad & Domitilia Olivieri Chapter 10: Connected Migrants - Dana Diminescu Chapter 11: Digital Divides - Linda Leung Chapter 12: Information Precarity - Melissa Wall Chapter 13: Infrastructures - Koen Leurs Chapter 14: The Political Economy of Digital Media, Migration and Race - Eugenia Siapera Chapter 15: Beyond Media Studies of Migration - Kevin Robins Chapter 16: Insurgent Academics - Roopika Risam Part 2: Methodologies Chapter 17: On Researching Climates of Hostility and Weathering - Yasmin Gunaratnam Chapter 18: Refracting the Analytical Gaze: Studying Media Representations of Migrant Death at the Border - Karina Horsti Chapter 19: Racializing Space. Gendering Place: Black Feminism, Ethnography, and Methodological Challenges Online and IRL - Kishonna Gray Chapter 20: Mobile Methods: Doing Migration Research with the Help of Smartphones - Katja Kaufmann Chapter 21: Mobility, Media, and Data Politics - Will L. Allen Chapter 22: Twitter Influentials and the Networked Publics' Engagement with the Rohingya Crisis in Arabic and English - Ahmed Al-Rawi Part 3: Communities Chapter 23: The Performative Digital Africa: iROKOtv, Nollywood Televisuals, and Community Building in the African Digital Diaspora - Tori Omega Arthur Chapter 24: Queer Migration and Digital Culture - Lukasz Szulc Chapter 25: Out of Place: Refugees Navigating Nation, Self, and Culture in Former East Germany - Emily Edwards Chapter 26: (Re)loading Identity and Affective Capital Online: The case of Diaspora Basques on Facebook - Pedro J. Oiarzabal Chapter 27: Russophone Diasporic Journalism: Production and Producers in the Changing Communicative Landscape - Olga Voronova, Liudmila Voronova, & Dmitry Yagodin Chapter 28: Airtime and the public sphere: Candela Radio's contribution to the integration of immigrant communities in the Basque Country - Irati Agirreazkuenaga & Estitxu Garai-Artetxe Chapter 29: Recasting Home: Indian Immigrants and the World Wide Web - Madhavi Mallapragada Chapter 30: Migrations and the Media between Asia and Latin America: Japanese Brazilians in Tokyo and Sao Paulo - Jessica Retis Part 4: Borders and Rights Chapter 31: Borders and the Contagious Nature of Mediation - Huub Dijstelbloem Chapter 32: The Oromo Movement and Ethiopian Border-making Using Social Media - Payal Arora Chapter 33: Digital Humanitarianism in a Refugee Camp - Lea Macias Chapter 34: The Politics of Vulnerability and Protection: Analysing the Case of LGBT Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Light of Securitization and Homonationalist Discourses - Christine Quinan, Dana Theewis, & Cecilia Cienfuegos Chapter 35: Young Displaced Women in Colombia and Media Use - Melissa Chacon Chapter 36: Communication Rights for Immigrants - Cees Hamelink & Maria Hagan Part 5: Representations Chapter 37: Migration, Race/Ethnicity and Sports Media Content - Jacco van Sterkenburg Chapter 38: Immigrant Families in European Cinema - Daniela Beghahn Chapter 39: Breaking the Silence: From Representations of Victims and Threat Towards Spaces of Voice - Kaarina Nikunen Chapter 40: Making Space for Oneself: Minorities and Self-Representation in Popular Media - Rosemary Pennington Chapter 41: Representations from a Multi-Stakeholders Perspective: A Research Agenda - Leen d'Haenens & Willem Joris Part 6: Spatialities Chapter 42: The Migration-Mobility Nexus: The Politics of Interface, Labor and Gender - Saskia Witteborn & Zhuoxiao Xie Chapter 43: The Cog that Imagines the System: Data Migration and Migrant Bodies in the Wake of Aadhaar - Nishant Shah Chapter 44: Automation versus Nationalism: Challenges to the Future of Work in the Software Industry - Nilanjan Raghunath Chapter 45: Civic Media, & Placemaking; (Re)Claiming Urban & Migrant Rights Across Digital and Physical Spaces - Giota Alevizou Chapter 46: Digital Place-Making Practices and Daily Struggles of Venezuelan Refugees in Brazil - Amanda Paz Alencar Chapter 47: Being at Home on Social Media: Online Place-Making among the Kurds in Turkey and Rural Migrants in China - Elisabetta Costa & JinXie Wang Chapter 48: YouTube as an Intercultural Space: Digital Narratives of Younger-Generation Migrants - Sherry Yu Part 7: Conflicts Chapter 49: Racisms, Migration and Media: A Reflection on Mutable Understandings and Shifting 'Problem Populations' - Gavan Titley Chapter 50: Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and Mobilization on the Internet - Mattias Ekman Chapter 51: National Politics, Transnational Resistance: Alevi Television during the State of Emergency in Turkey (2016-2018) - Kumru Berfin Emin Cetin Chapter 52: Diaspora Activism in Host and Home Countries: Motivations, Possibilities and Limits - Christine Ogan Chapter 53: Media, Recognition and Conflict-Generated Diaspora: the Somali Diaspora as a Case Study - Idil Osman Chapter 54: Conflict and Migration in Lebanese Graphic Narratives - Rasha Chatta Epilogue: On Giving and Being a Voice - Zaina Erhaim, Yazan Badran, & Kevin Smets Epilogue: Self-Reflections on Migration and Exile - Bermal Aydin

Due to the range of its themes, approaches, voices and contexts, this volume will be an indispensable guide to all scholars working on migration and media, and will furthermore open up a new space for methodological and conceptual reflection on a world in which movement and mediation are two sides of the same coin. -- Arjun Appadurai Scholarship on media and migration research has exploded in recent years. This outstanding volume captures the breadth and urgency of this important and rapidly-evolving work. A must-read for anyone working on media, migration and displacement. -- Mirca Madianou This volume of over 50 chapters traverses enormous terrain in interrogating the entanglements of migration and media, highlighting the politics of encounter and the powerful combinations and permutations that shape contemporary migrant lives across the globe. What is truly excellent is the timely focus on social media, data science and digital technologies, and the impact on knowledge hierarchies and social justice in migration research. . -- Brenda Yeoh Highlighting questions of power inequalities, processes, and dynamics within the intersections of media and migration, this book is a path-breaking vital and welcome contribution to migration and media studies. This Handbook provides insights into a central question of both these fields, that of representation and mediation. With careful attention paid to definitions, methodologies, and emerging issues, this book will be invaluable to scholars and students alike. -- Nina Glick Schiller The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration' consists of 54 chapters divided into seven parts. It showcases an overview of recent research on media and migration by exploring diverse concepts and methodologies, grounded in media and communication studies, and aided by sociology, anthropology, political science, urban science and technology, human rights, development, and gender and sexuality studies. By standing against a Eurocentric perspective, the editors have enabled the encounters of researchers from different regions of the world as well as of diverse epistemologies and methodologies in this area of study. -- Viviane Riegel * European Journal of Communication * The urgent matter the editors aim to highlight with this work is how questions of mediation and the politics of representation are being led by global and local politics and how the media contribute to the development of acts of xenophobia and the reproduction of far-right 'crisis' discourses. By standing against a Eurocentric perspective, the editors have enabled the encounters of researchers from different regions of the world as well as of diverse epistemologies and methodologies in this area of study. This is why the prologue by the artist Tabita Rezaire is an invitation to a healing process, a 'decolonial healing', as she labels it. -- Viviane Riegel * European Journal of Communication * This handbook is certainly timely given the number of migration crises around the globe, the rise of xenophobic far-Right political groups, and the ever-increasing role of digital media in both representing these crises and the people caught up in them, and providing an opportunity for the disenfranchised to represent themselves. [...] In keeping with the principles of social justice and the ethos of cultural studies and media studies, the collection seeks to counter the Eurocentrism of current media messages about migrants. -- S. Clerc * Choice Connect * Through this assemblage of scholarship, The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration represents a provocative gaze on the intersection of media and migration in diverse spheres, places, discourses, and narratives that are subject to micro-, meso-, and macro-analyses. In its attempt to critically challenge and resist a Eurocentric perspective, the book imagines new ways of addressing migration and media research that involve academic awareness and decolonial perspectives -- Silvia Almenara-Niebla * Information, Communication & Society Journal from Routledge * I felt 'at home' reading this impressive collection of chapters, stimulated by their findings, diversity of topics and approaches, journeying from one country or refugee site to another, engaging with efforts to map uncertainty, empathizing with both researchers (many migrants themselves) and their study participants. The 'at home' feeling stems from the messy duality of meaning an individual may experience as a migrant that was so well captured by researchers in this handbook: at the mercy of institutions who themselves cope with the arrow of time, in the path of intended and unintended consequences of mediated (re)presentations, both agent and object, manifesting defeat and resilience, both a case number and dignifiedly alive. -- Elena Gabor * Intellect Ltd. Book Review *