Digital media, friendships and migrants’ entangled and non-linear inclusion and exclusion

• Verfasst von: Bork-Hüffer, Tabea [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Digital media, friendships and migrants’ entangled and non-linear inclusion and exclusion
• Verf.angabe: Tabea Bork-Hüffer
• Jahr: 2022
• Umfang: 17 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 10.04.2025 ; First published: September 2, 2022
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Urban studies
• Ort Quelle: London : Sage Publications Ltd., 1964
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: 59(2022), 16, Seite 3330-3346
• ISSN Quelle: 1360-063X
• DOI: doi:10.1177/00420980221111994
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1922046280

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.