Digital Empowerment of Asylum Seekers in Turkey and Refugees in Switzerland to Cope With (Im)Mobility Conditions
| Responsable du projet | Mihaela Nedelcu |
| Résumé |
In the field of digital migration studies, existing scholarship
points to the ambivalence of the multi-faceted impact of ICTs on
migration processes, stressing that the digitalization offers new
agency tools for migrants, while generating new structural
constraints to their actions and (im)mobilities. This project
questions the digital empowerment of precarious migrants by
unpacking ICTs-mediated practices of asylum seekers and refugees
from a migration-mobility nexus perspective. It will answer the
overall research question of: How are asylum seekers and refugees
using digital technologies to cope with (im)mobility conditions,
daily life, and crisis situations? Thus, it uses the focus on the
ICTs as a way to put an analytical “zoom” on the complex
relationships between mobility and immobility within migration
trajectories. By adopting a comparative and qualitative approach, this study focuses on the cases of asylum seekers and refugees from sub-Saharan countries in a transit country (Turkey) and in a destination country (Switzerland). Considering ICTs at three different levels (as research object, fieldwork and tools), we will collect data by combining (n)ethnography (fieldwork observations conducted at the same time in different geographical and digital environments), semi-structured interviews and focus groups. This combination of virtual methods with more traditional qualitative research tools will allow us to triangulate collected data and produce more robust outcomes and analyses. |
| Mots-clés |
refugees, digital practices, transnational migration, Turkex, Switzerland |
| Type de projet | Recherche fondamentale |
| Domaine de recherche | Sociology |
| Source de financement | SNF - nccr-on the move |
| Etat | En cours |
| Début de projet | 1-6-2020 |
| Fin du projet | 31-5-2022 |
| Budget alloué | 199'985 CHF |
| Contact | Mihaela Nedelcu |