Digital media, friendships and migrants' entangled and non-linear inclusion and exclusion. (December 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bork-Hüffer, Tabea
• Other Names: Ye Junjia guest-editor.; Yeoh Brenda SA guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Urban studies. Volume 59:Number 16(2022)
• Page Start: 3330
• Page End: 3346
• Publication Date: 2022-12
• Subjects: differential inclusion -- digital geographies -- digital media -- digital migration studies -- highly skilled migration -- non-linear temporalities -- Singapore; 亚洲 -- 差异包容 -- 数字地理 -- 数字媒体 -- 数字移民研究 -- 高技能移民 -- 非线性时间性 -- 新加坡; Cities and towns -- Periodicals; City planning -- Periodicals; 307.1216
• DOI: 10.1177/00420980221111994
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0042-0980

Abstract

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.