Mobile communication and refugees: An analytical review of academic literature

A Alencar - Sociology Compass, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, an expanding literature has explored the ways in which refugees rely
on mobile communication technologies to stay in touch with a wider community and to …

An overview of mobile learning for refugee students: Juxtaposing refugee needs with mobile applications' characteristics

M Drolia, E Sifaki, S Papadakis, M Kalogiannakis - Challenges, 2020 - mdpi.com
The mass influx of refugees into Europe since 2013 and their educational challenges have
increased the need for high-quality refugee education. One proposal for addressing these …

Smart refugees: How Syrian asylum migrants use social media information in migration decision-making

R Dekker, G Engbersen, J Klaver… - Social Media+ …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media are increasingly popular channels of information on which migrants base their
decisions on whether to migrate and the destinations where to settle. While social media …

Syrian refugees and the digital passage to Europe: Smartphone infrastructures and affordances

M Gillespie, S Osseiran… - Social media+ society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This research examines the role of smartphones in refugees' journeys. It traces the risks and
possibilities afforded by smartphones for facilitating information, communication, and …

Syrian refugees in Turkey: Pathways to precarity, differential inclusion, and negotiated citizenship rights

F Baban, S Ilcan, K Rygiel - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article addresses the question of how to understand the relation among precarity,
differential inclusion, and citizenship status with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey. Turkey …

Five questions for digital migration studies: Learning from digital connectivity and forced migration in (to) Europe

K Leurs, K Smets - Social media+ society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This Special Collection “Forced migration and digital connectivity in (to) Europe” historicizes,
contextualizes, empirically grounds, and conceptually reflects on the impact of digital …

The best, the worst, and the hardest to find: How people, mobiles, and social media connect migrants in (to) Europe

M Borkert, KE Fisher, E Yafi - Social Media+ Society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
For displaced people, migrating into Europe has highly complex information needs about
the journey and destination. Each new need presents problems of where to seek …

Connected migrants: Encapsulation and cosmopolitanization

K Leurs, S Ponzanesi - Popular communication, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Taking a cue from Dana Diminescu's seminal manifesto on “the connected migrant,” this
special issue introduces the notions of encapsulation and cosmopolitanism to understand …

Navigating a new life: Syrian refugees and their smartphones in Vienna

K Kaufmann - Information, Communication & Society, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Networked technologies are a key tool for today's refugees; not only on the move but also
upon arrival in their new surroundings. Where mobile Internet access is affordable and …

Digital resilience tactics of Syrian refugees in the Netherlands: Social media for social support, health, and identity

G Udwan, K Leurs, A Alencar - Social Media+ Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The process of adjusting to a new country may carry important stressors for refugees. In the
light of neoliberal policies, refugees are expected to become resilient in a local arrival …