Migration Mobile - (Challenging Migration Studies) by Vasilis Galis & Martin Bak Jørgensen & Marie Sandberg (Paperback)

About the Book

The Migration Mobile explores how governments use technology to control borders, and how migrants use technology to circumvent, challenge, and reconfigure that same border apparatus. The book investigates these issues through empirical examples drawn from across Europe, including cases from Greece, the Austrian-Italian border, and Northern Europe.

Book Synopsis

The Migration Mobile explores how governments use technology to control borders, and how migrants use technology to circumvent, challenge, and reconfigure that same border apparatus. The book investigates these issues through empirical examples drawn from across Europe, including cases from Greece, the Austrian-Italian border, and Northern Europe.

Review Quotes

The Migration Mobile challenges policy frameworks to examine the network of diverse actors co-constituting the changing meanings of migration, detention, deportation, and destitution. A must-read for students, academics, and all those who work with or are interested in contemporary migration.

The Migration Mobile provides a unique overview of how deeply the key concepts on which societies are built such as population, identity, trust, infrastructures, dissidence, and resistance are intertwined with migration and mobility. A must read for anyone interested in social transformation, mobility, and the sociotechnical infrastructure of living together - and the resulting tensions.

This important book brings together exciting and original new work on the relationship between migration, borders, and technology. Through a series of fascinating studies, the contributors chart the role of technology in constituting migration and migrants ndash; through both practices of control and enabling forms of resistance and subversion.

About the Author

Vasilis Galis is an associate professor in the Technologies in Practice Group at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Martin Bak Jørgensen is a professor affiliated with the Democracy, Migration and Society (DEMOS) research group at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Marie Sandberg is an associate professor of ethnology, and director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.