Being (co-)present: Reflecting the personal and public spheres of asylum seeking in relation to connectivity

Lintner, Claudia

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“…Much of the research highlighted in this section is not only from high‐income countries, but also focuses on populations who have the necessary documentation to set up mobile phone and internet accounts and use municipal services. While there are examples of border, immigration and telecommunications regulations combining to exclude migrants in high income countries (e.g., Lintner, 2020), they tend to be magnified in developing countries where immigration and telecommunications laws change often and are not coordinated with migrants in mind (Eppler et al, 2020; Martin‐Shields & Munir‐Asen, 2020).…”

Section: Icts and E‐government In Urban Migrants’ And Refugees’ Livesmentioning

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Digitalization and e‐government in the lives of urban migrants: Evidence from Bogotá

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Research on the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the lives of migrants is a growing field. However, studies in this area have been conducted mainly in wealthy countries, with municipalities that are capable of supporting migrants or refugees. There is less evidence from middle-income host countries and how ICTs can help migrants in their resettlement efforts. To address this gap, this study examines ICT access and the use of e-government services by Venezuelan migrants in Colombia and compares this group with short-and long-term residents of Bogotá. The descriptive analysis of the data reveals that, after controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, foreign migrants are less likely to own ICT devices compared to short-and long-term residents, but over time do acquire ICT access. In addition, Venezuelan migrants are less likely to use e-government services than their local peers even after controlling for demographic characteristics and internet access, with the exception of address registration. The results indicate that ICT access is not a sufficient condition for migrants to access e-government services and there is a need for policy coordination to reduce bureaucratic "red tape" that may diminish migrants' likelihood of accessing to e-government services.

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Section: Icts and E‐government In Urban Migrants’ And Refugees’ Livesmentioning

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Digitalization and e‐government in the lives of urban migrants: Evidence from Bogotá

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“…Scholars that explore theories on the social impacts of ICTs, especially those focusing on refugees (e.g. Gough & Gough, 2019;Kaufmann, 2018;Kutscher & Kress, 2018;Lintner, 2020), must necessarily engage the social and cultural factors to properly conceptualize the meaning of their findings (something we admittedly do not do within the context of this particular study). Future research in this domain should explicitly examine the social and cultural factors that underlie the social impacts of ICTs to better understand their differential impacts.…”

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“…These impacts are the result of ICT's capacity to fulfill functions in social spaces that are limited or absent for refugees. Providing the means for transnational connection fulfills a void of control over one's life (Gough and Gough, 2019) or compensating for numerous spheres of social activity such as learning or interaction (Lintner, 2020). As this implies, community and social level impacts of ICTs are likewise present, as noted in Kaufmann's (2018) study of Syrian refugees in Vienna.…”

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“…The integration of ICTs into a community's social fabric connects social impacts to ICT use, yielding a rich body of qualitative scholarship on this relationship. Such studies examine for example, how ICTs impact interactions with a host community (Kang et al , 2017), information-seeking behaviors (Aléncar and Tsagkroni, 2019; Coles-Kemp and Jensen, 2019) and emotional and mental wellness (Leurs, 2019; Shah et al , 2019), as well as the integration of ICTs into physical existence (Gough and Gough, 2019; Lintner, 2020). While these studies yield nuanced theory, to date there is a lack of quantitative evidence of the connection between collective behaviors in ICT use and community benefit.…”

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Exploring the relationship between information and communication technology collective behaviors and sense of community: an urban refugee analysis

Canevez

Maitland²,

Ying

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ITP

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PurposeHelping others use information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile phones, can be beneficial for individuals and communities. In urban refugee communities, displaced and living far from home, collective behaviors with mobile phones can generate a sense of belonging. The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for these offline behaviors to generate a sense of community among urban refugees.Design/methodology/approachUsing quantitative evidence, the authors examined the relationship between collective behaviors, such as sharing or helping with a mobile phone, and sense of community. The authors analyzed survey data collected from urban refugees in Rwanda via multiple regression to test hypotheses related to the impact of collective behaviors on sense of community, as well as the mediating role of ICT self-efficacy and gender.FindingsThe findings suggest that collective behaviors with mobile phones have a positive relationship with sense of community, driven primarily by providing assistance as compared to sharing. ICT self-efficacy was positively related to sense of community. However, collective behaviors' impacts differed by gender, suggesting that social dynamics influence this relationship.Originality/valueWhile the extant literature highlights the various roles of mobile phones in refugees' lives, less is known about the social aspects of use and its potential to help overcome isolation by fostering a sense of community. The authors extend this literature to a novel context (urban refugees in the Global South), testing a model that incorporates other factors that may play a role (e.g. self-efficacy and gender). These findings are valuable to urban refugees, due to difficulties in re-building a sense of community and increased ICT access.

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“…1 In this article, we extend the concept of affordances, or individual-level uses of ICTs, to the refugee policy level, using an empirical framework based on the concept of refugee self-reliance in urban settings. Self-reliance is particularly salient for urban refugees since they live outside the formal administration of camp settings and end up having to meet their own needs through formal and informal economic and social activities (UNHCR 2009). Extending the concept of affordances to understand the concept of refugee self-reliance allows us to ask the question: Do ICT affordances support urban refugees’ self-reliance in Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia, a middle-income refugee host country?…”

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Do Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) Support Self-Reliance among Urban Refugees? Evidence from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia

Martin-Shields

Munir-Asen²

2022

International Migration Review

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Organizations working with refugees are increasingly using information communication technologies (ICTs) in their work. While there is a rich literature in the field of media and communications studies exploring how refugees use ICTs to meet their social and economic needs, this article focuses on whether and how refugees’ ICT use maps onto the policy concept of refugee self-reliance, focusing on the economic, educational, administrative, health, and security/protection domains of self-reliance in informal urban settings. Building on the literature on refugees’ ICT use, we use semi-structured interviews with urban refugees in Malaysia to understand how they use technology in their daily lives and whether these refugees’ digital practices support self-reliance. We also interviewed practitioners from the Malaysian United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office and non-governmental organization (NGO) sectors to better understand such institutions’ strategies for using ICTs to deliver economic, educational, administrative, health, and protection programs in local refugee communities. Our findings are twofold: refugees’ use of ICTs represented idiosyncratic ways of achieving self-reliance, but when institutions tried to implement ICT solutions to support refugee self-reliance at a population level, refugees either did not use these ICT solutions or were critical of the institutional solutions. The findings presented here have import for not only research on refugee self-reliance and ICTs but also the wider migration field, as organizations, such as the International Organization for Migration and national immigration authorities, integrate ICTs into processes that affect migrants’ and displaced peoples’ economic, social, and political inclusion in cities of arrival.

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Being (co-)present: Reflecting the personal and public spheres of asylum seeking in relation to connectivity

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Digitalization and e‐government in the lives of urban migrants: Evidence from Bogotá

Digitalization and e‐government in the lives of urban migrants: Evidence from Bogotá

Exploring the relationship between information and communication technology collective behaviors and sense of community: an urban refugee analysis

Do Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) Support Self-Reliance among Urban Refugees? Evidence from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia

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