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Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements.

Authors :
Cabalquinto, Earvin
Leurs, Koen
Source :
International Journal of Cultural Studies. Nov2023, Vol. 26 Issue 6, p623-635. 13p.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

What does the increased reliance on digital communication technologies by migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, migrant communities, governments and researchers reveal about the benefits, limits and politics of everyday mobile and immobile experiences during the pandemic? This introduction to the special issue on cultures of (im)mobile entanglements addresses this inquiry, alongside ten articles covering themes of governance and surveillance, agency and negotiated subjectivities, translocal and transnational solidarity, as well as doing research in pandemic times. Critically engaging with both mobility and immobility in the intersecting field of mobilities and migration research, the special issue centres a multidimensional and multi-scalar perspective on the deep interlinking of various modes of mobilities and stasis in and beyond spatial and temporal conditions mediated by politically and culturally structured digitalization. It endeavours to create a vantage point to critically examine the mobility–immobility continuum as informed by power relations, hierarchies and inequalities in a networked and global society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
13678779
Volume :
26
Issue :
6
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
172896558
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779231198548