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Livre 10 sur 15: McGill-Queen's Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

Martin-Shields, Charles

 
9780228020523: Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Reshaping Social, Political, and Economic Networks
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ISBN 10 : 0228020522 ISBN 13 : 9780228020523
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide. Against this backdrop digital technologies are fundamentally changing how refugees and displaced people engage with urban landscapes and economies where they settle. Urban Refugees and Digital Technology draws on contemporary data gathered from refugee communities in Bogotá, Nairobi, and Kuala Lumpur to build a new theoretical understanding of how technological change influences the ways urban refugees contribute to the social, economic, and political networks in their cities of arrival. This data is presented against the broader history of technological change in urban areas since the start of industrialization, showing how displaced people across time have used technologized urban spaces to shape the societies where they settle. The case studies and history demonstrate how refugees’ interactions with environments that are often hostile to their presence spur novel adaptations to idiosyncratic features of a city’s technological landscape. A wide-ranging study across histories and geographies of urban displacement, Urban Refugees and Digital Technology introduces readers to the myriad ways technological change creates spaces for urban refugees to build rich political, social, and economic lives in cities.

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À propos de l'auteur

Charles Martin-Shields is senior researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability.

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Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0228020522
ISBN 13 
9780228020523
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
234
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Personne responsable
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