Information-precarity for refugee women in Hamburg, Germany, during the COVID-19 pandemic

Berg, Miriam

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2022.2129271

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“…In other words, marginalized actors who are critical of the structure that marginalizes them transform their state of precarity into an alternative space where they can achieve their goals. Third, we extend information marginalization work beyond health information practices (e.g., Greyson, 2018;Kitzie et al, 2020) and information precarity work beyond refugees (e.g., Berg, 2021Berg, , 2022Wall et al, 2017Wall et al, , 2019. We have demonstrated that information practices are everyday life practices that people use to find information, solve problems, and live fully.…”

Section: Subversive Practicesmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…Third, we extend information marginalization work beyond health information practices (e.g., Greyson, 2018; Kitzie et al, 2020) and information precarity work beyond refugees (e.g., Berg, 2021, 2022; Wall et al, 2017, 2019). We have demonstrated that information practices are everyday life practices that people use to find information, solve problems, and live fully.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Rather than the neoliberal, consumerist model of information practices that is active in much of the United States, we find that many Puerto Ricans engaged in solidarity-based, anti-colonial, and anti-neoliberal information activities. This extends work focused on information practices in health (Greyson, 2018;Kitzie et al, 2020) and work that examines information precarity among refugee communities (Berg, 2021(Berg, , 2022Wall et al, 2017Wall et al, , 2019.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…They depicted information precarity as "the condition of instability that refugees experience in accessing news and personal information, potentially leaving them vulnerable to misinformation, stereotyping, and rumors that can affect their economic and social capital" (p. 240). Likewise, Berg (2021Berg ( , 2022 examined the information precarity of women refugees in Germany. This stream of research, focusing on refugees, clearly conveys the ways in which structural, political, and social institutions create and perpetuate instability, vulnerability, and inequity.…”

Section: Information Precaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

Vasquez

Oltmann

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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In this study, we propose that information precarity leads to and perpetuates information marginalization; communities then engage with marginalization with various types of proactive information practices. For this project, we explore how Puerto Ricans activists responded to information precarity before, during, and after Hurricane Maria. We interviewed activists about their experiences navigating the local and federal institutional environment and their information practices. We show that although Puerto Rico suffered catastrophic damage after Hurricane Maria, its already‐weakened infrastructure, coupled with fiscal instability, had created a state of information precarity for many people before the hurricane hit. We also show how Puerto Rican activists engaged in solidarity‐based, anti‐colonial, and anti‐neoliberal information activities. While previous models argue that people respond to marginalization with defensive/protective behavior, we propose people go beyond just responding; they enact their agency, resourcefulness, collective interests, and locally based knowledge to engage in proactive and subversive information practices. We conclude that marginalized actors who are critical of the structures that marginalize them transform their state of precarity into an alternative space where they can achieve their goals.

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Section: Subversive Practicesmentioning

confidence: 76%

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confidence: 93%

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confidence: 99%

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Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

Vasquez

Oltmann

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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“…There was an increase in the isolation of specific categories of people with more limited opportunities to access information and communication technologies (ICTs) and related skills, such as older adults (in particular from ethnic minorities) and the disabled [21]. Berg [22] highlights how the increase in the use of ICTs in public life determined the dynamics of exclusion and the increase in inequalities for refugee women living in accommodation centres in Germany that lacked internet and technological devices. This dynamic also resulted in increased distrust in the measures taken to combat the pandemic and a greater risk of relying on misinformation [22].…”

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confidence: 99%

When Sociotechnical Imaginaries Become True: Digital Transition of Public Services and Inequalities during the Pandemic

Cibin

2023

Societies

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As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many public institutions in Europe designed policies that increased the use of ICTs with the public to provide or collect information, offer support, and perform educational activities. This process was in line with a sociotechnical imaginary where people’s lives are increasingly “smart” and enhanced through digital innovation. We provide an analysis of the implications of this imaginary during the pandemic for people belonging to vulnerable categories, to understand how these actors are considered in the digital transition process at the European level. This analysis is based on qualitative data collected in 30 European countries in the frame of an EU project aimed at understanding how COVID-19-related public policies shaped social inequalities. Building on the intersection between gender studies, science and technology studies, and media studies, this analysis aims to contribute to a more inequality-aware policy reflection on the digital transition.

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Infrastructures in the context of arrival – multidimensional patterns of resource access in an established and a new immigrant neighborhood in Germany

El-Kayed,

Keskinkılıc

2023

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. Recent debates on arrival cities, neighborhoods, or other scales of local contexts tend to focus on aspects of local areas which support new migrants in accessing resources such as social networks, organizations, and other kinds of local infrastructure that give access to (multilingual) information, housing options, first jobs, or a sense of belonging and conviviality. These features are often concentrated in long-standing immigrant neighborhoods. In this contribution, we compare different kinds of local infrastructure in two German local contexts – in an established immigrant neighborhood and a rather new immigrant neighborhood – and how they have shaped the arrival of refugees who have come to Germany since 2014/15. We emphasize the need to understand infrastructures and the way they shape arrival, first, in a multidimensional way that, second, comprises inclusive as well as exclusive aspects of local infrastructures. This, third, includes the need to specify for which category of people infrastructures work in an inclusive or exclusive way as they work differently along a range of social boundaries.

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Information-precarity for refugee women in Hamburg, Germany, during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 3 publications

References 73 publications

Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

Information precarity and the agentic practices of marginalized communities: Puerto Rican activists addressing the crisis before, during, and after Hurricane Maria

When Sociotechnical Imaginaries Become True: Digital Transition of Public Services and Inequalities during the Pandemic

Infrastructures in the context of arrival – multidimensional patterns of resource access in an established and a new immigrant neighborhood in Germany

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