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Nedelcu, Mihaela

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Nedelcu, Mihaela
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mihaela.nedelcu@unine.ch
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    What Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement
    (2024)
    Piccoli, Lorenzo 
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    Matteo Gianni
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    Ruedin, Didier 
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    Achermann, Christin 
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    Dahinden, Janine 
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    Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik
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    Nedelcu, Mihaela 
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    Zittoun, Tania 
    Categorising certain forms of human movement as ‘migration’ and others as ‘mobility’ has far-reaching consequences. We introduce the migration–mobility nexus as a framework for other researchers to interrogate the relationship between these two categories of human movement and explain how they shape different social representations. Our framework articulates four ideal-typical interplays between categories of migration and categories of mobility: continuum (fluid mobilities transform into more stable forms of migration and vice versa), enablement (migration requires mobility, and mobility can trigger migration), hierarchy (migration and mobility are political categories that legitimise hierarchies of movement) and opposition (migration and mobility are pitted against each other). These interplays reveal the normative underpinnings of different categories, which we argue are too often implicit and unacknowledged.
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    European instruments for the deportation of foreigners and their uses by France and Switzerland: the application of the Dublin III Regulation and Eurodac
    (2020-8-28)
    Soysüren, Ibrahim 
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    Nedelcu, Mihaela 
    The European Union put in place instruments for the deportation of foreigners that gained much importance. This article describes the multiplicity and diversity of these instruments. To analyse them more clearly, it distinguishes three types: legal, organisational and technological. The article equally points to the increasing relevance of technological tools, especially the use of biometrics. It also looks at how a founding member of the EU, France, and an associated country, Switzerland, utilise these European instruments to deport foreigners by focusing on the Dublin III Regulation as well as the Eurodac database, jointly referred to as the Dublin System. Grounding on a comparative study combining documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews and participant observation, this article describes the similarities and differences in the use of the Dublin System in these two countries. Moreover, it also reveals these countries’ specificities with regard to the roles played by local and national administrative bodies, and associative actors. The paper ends by concluding that to fully understand the deportation process in the European context as well as in certain countries, a multifaceted approach is required to make sense of the various interactions taking place between local, national and supranational frameworks, actors and practices.
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    Intersections between Ageing and Migration: Current Trends and Challenges
    (2020-7-6)
    Ciobanu, Ruxandra Oana
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    Nedelcu, Mihaela 
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    Soom Ammann, Eva
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    Van Holten, KArin
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    Editors’ introduction. Ageing as a Migrant: Vulnerabilities, Agency and Policy Implications
    (2017-2-1)
    Ciobanu, Ruxandra Oana
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    Fokkema, Tineke
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    Nedelcu, Mihaela 
    This paper starts with a short review of the growing literature on the topic of older migrants, particularly in relation to this population’s diversity, social vulnerability, loneliness, (transnational) care and support networks. It then introduces the collection of papers of this special issue by proposing an approach to studying older migrants as social actors who develop strategies to surpass vulnerabilities. Older migrants mobilise their resources while taking into account structural opportunities and restrictions from the meso and macro levels. Hence their strategies are placed at the intersection between family obligations and resources, social networks, and migration and care regimes. Such an interdisciplinary and multi-level model acknowledges the heterogeneity of older migrants. The paper concludes with a discussion of the research results that have implications for policies targeting the growing population of older migrants.
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    ICT-based co-presence in transnational families
    (2016-2-9)
    Baldassar, Loretta
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    Nedelcu, Mihaela 
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    Merla, Laura
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    Wilding, Raelene
    It is now well documented that the experience of migration has undergone a radical transformation in recent decades, notably with the emergence of transnational modes of sociality in both families and communities. The processes of migration have always challenged the taken-for-granted assumption that physical proximity is necessary for the maintenance of significant social ties. Now, more than ever before, the proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and new media environments has begun to challenge the premise that strong relationships require face-to-face interactions. Even more than affordable travel, it is the expansion and enhancement of technologies of communication such as the internet, smartphones and social media that have contributed to the recent, startling emergence of a new social environment of ubiquitous connectivity. This new social reality transforms sociality in (post)modern societies in complex ways. To reflect these transformations, a new lexicon has begun to develop that charts the social impacts of new applications of such technologies. The important work of Castells (1996) on the ‘network society’ points to the ways in which communication technologies support more frequent and more diverse connections across time and space. More recently, further nuance has been developed in understanding the impact of ICTs on the experience and practice of relationships. Notions like ‘connected presence’ (Licoppe 2004) highlight the ways in which the capacity to connect with others has resulted in an ongoing practice of connecting to others, in various manners. The concept of ‘mobile lives’ (Elliott and Urry 2010) refers to the ways in which people manage their everyday mobility without necessarily sacrificing their sense of connecting to significant others. The idea of ‘bounded sociality’ (Ling 2008) emphasizes the fact that not only geographic proximity, but also close relationships are shaping the ways in which technologies are used to sustain relationships. Such concepts help to articulate how social life is no longer conducted wholly in place, within neat physical and territorial boundaries, but rather must now be conceived of as incorporating distant ties and connections. The authors of this special issue explore how communication technologies are transforming ways of ‘being together’ and forms of ‘co-presence’ in families and communities separated by distance and over time. The concept of ‘ICT-based co-presence’ is used to capture and explore the diverse ways in which people maintain a sense of ‘being there’ for each other across distance. Emerging scholarship reveals that the intensive use of internet-based communication, mobile phones and social media can contribute to strengthening ties and intensifying the circulation of various (cultural, emotional, economic and social) resources within transnational families (Madianou and Miller 2012). The uses of these technologies may also facilitate intergenerational solidarities at a distance, expanding transnational emotional and other forms of support. This is not to suggest that such transnational forms of caregiving are evenly distributed and shared. Rather, the exchange of support in transnational families is characterized by the asymmetrical reciprocal exchanges that define all intimate social relationships. Nor is it to suggest that all transnational relationships take the same form or have the same impact. One of the questions that is raised by the transnational experience produced by new technologies is just how effective these transnational forms of exchanges are in approximating or ‘standing in for’ the physical co-presence and ‘being there’ that has long been taken for granted as the bedrock of family and other significant relationships. Throughout this issue, detailed ethnographic case studies illustrate the social uses of new technologies in migrant, as well as transnational family and community contexts, using these richly described examples to develop theories to better understand the transformation of transnational family life by ICTs. Key issues include: how do trans- national families use a range of ICTs to re-create ‘being together’, ‘being there’ and the experience of ‘co-presence’ in everyday life? How might we define ‘co-presence’ in transnational settings, and what are its heuristic contributions and constraints? What norms and expectations (in terms of empowerment, emotional resilience, control, emotional pressure, and so forth) are created by the new possibilities for co-presence? What are the benefits and limits of ICT-based co-presence within transnational families?
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    ‘Doing family’ through ICT-mediated ordinary co-presence: transnational communication practices of Romanian migrants in Switzerland
    (2016-2-9)
    Nedelcu, Mihaela 
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    Wyss, Malika 
    In this article, we account for the emergence of new ‘being together’ practices that transnational families develop through ICT-mediated communication. Drawing on the case of Romanian migrants in Switzerland, we show how political and technological factors, family norms and obligations, as well as individual preferences and aspirations interact and generate novel ordinary co-presence routines that rely on multiple media affordances to recreate a space for family practices and shape different ways of ‘doing family’ at a distance. This study shows how a subtle sense of each other's everyday life combines with possibilities and feelings of ‘being and doing things together’ at a distance, through multimodal interactions, reflected in ritual, omnipresent and reinforced co-presence routines. Although these routines are the drivers of new forms and feelings of togetherness, they generate ambivalent effects that range from immediate reciprocal wellbeing and emotional comfort to new expectations of solidarity, family tensions and constraints. In conclusion, ICT-mediated ordinary co-presence not only mirrors the ‘normal’ functioning of transnational families, but it also reflects, more generally, an expression of the cosmopolitanization of everyday life.