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

Tabea Bork-Hüffer

Urban Studies, 2022, vol. 59, issue 16, 3330-3346

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.

Keywords: differential inclusion; digital geographies; digital media; digital migration studies; highly skilled migration; non-linear temporalities; Singapore; 亚洲; 差异包容; æ•°å­—åœ°ç †; 数字媒体; æ•°å­—ç§»æ°‘ç ”ç©¶; 高技能移民; é žçº¿æ€§æ—¶é—´æ€§; æ–°åŠ å ¡ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980221111994

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