Immobile Socialities?

Seuferling, Philipp

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“…Using the mobilities lens, this paper explores the ‘immobilities’ produced through networked environments. This approach builds on a several works, highlighting how stasis surfaces in digital environments as mediated by socio-cultural, technological, and contextual factors (Aziz, 2022; Cabalquinto, 2022; Seuferling, 2021; Smets, 2019). To further explore mediated immobilities, I apply the concept of ‘network capital’, underlining how uneven access to resources, capacities, and social networks stir forced immobility within digital spaces.…”

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“…Notably, people's forced physical immobility has already been explored in previous studies, suggesting how immobility regimes (Glick Schiller and Salazar, 2013), including policies and legislation (Turner, 2007), a brokerage system (Xiang and Lindquist, 2014), and surveillance technologies (Shamir, 2005) create conditions of physical immobility for certain bodies, such as refugees (Patterson and Leurs, 2020; Smets, 2019; Witteborn, 2011) and migrants (Glick Schiller and Salazar, 2013; Lin et al, 2017). In the context of media and communications, an emerging body of work has begun exploring how both movements and stillness are generated through everyday, digital, and care practices, as shaped by social relations, power dynamics, and digital infrastructures (Cabalquinto, 2022; Leurs, 2014; Seuferling, 2021; Smets, 2019). This paper therefore contributes to these works by unravelling the scales and textures of both mobilities and immobilities through ageing migrants’ digital practices during a lockdown.…”

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‘Without technology we’d be very stuck’: Ageing migrants’ differential (im)mobile practices during a lockdown

Cabalquinto

2022

Media International Australia

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Ubiquitous mobile communication technologies have played an integral role in the way people navigated forced physical immobilities produced through restrictive measures during a pandemic. This paper critically investigates how 15 ageing people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Victoria, Australia used a range of digital communication technologies and online platforms to cope during the 2020 lockdown. The study deploys the mobilities lens (Urry, 2007) in analysing a data set based on conducting remote and in-depth interviewing. It foregrounds how everyday and multi-scalar digital behaviours afford cultural and social connectedness, reflecting diverse forms of care practices. However, forced immobile practices emerged as shaped by disproportionate network capital. In sum, this study puts forward a nuanced perspective in understanding the scales and textures of (im)mobile practices of ageing migrants during a lockdown in Australia.

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Section: Performing Mediated (Im)mobilitiesmentioning

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‘Without technology we’d be very stuck’: Ageing migrants’ differential (im)mobile practices during a lockdown

Cabalquinto

2022

Media International Australia

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Power geometries of mediated care: (re)mapping transnational families and immobility of the Rohingya diaspora in a digital age

Aziz

2022

Media, Culture & Society

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This article provides a new direction in digital media and communication studies and develops an emergent analytical lens of digital media and immobility in the context of forced migration. Drawing on a qualitative multi-sited research approach, I shed light on digitally mediated transnational care among the Rohingya diaspora in refugee camps in Bangladesh and in Brisbane, Australia. I draw on Massey’s idea of the ‘power geometry’ with a combination ‘immobility turn’ to consider how the socio-spatial mobility is restricted and regulated, and how these immobilities are crucial to understanding family care practices. I argue that the idea of transnational families existing beyond nation-states, and the social and spatial immobilities may help us to identify the linkages, discrepancies and power asymmetries that exist in cross-cultural settings. The findings offer a critical stance on immobility, which impacts and shapes transnational caregiving practices of forced migrants in the age of digital media.

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Immobile Socialities?

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‘Without technology we’d be very stuck’: Ageing migrants’ differential (im)mobile practices during a lockdown

‘Without technology we’d be very stuck’: Ageing migrants’ differential (im)mobile practices during a lockdown

Power geometries of mediated care: (re)mapping transnational families and immobility of the Rohingya diaspora in a digital age

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