The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration

Koen Leurs is an Associate Professor in Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Program of the Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Leurs is a digital migration studies scholar interested in digital practices of migrants and digital governmentality of migration. He combines mixed methods with creative, participatory and digital approaches. He is PI in the project ‘Co-Designing a Fair Digital Asylum System’ (2022–2023). He was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Previously, he chaired the ‘Diaspora, Migration and the Media’ section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA, 2016-2021). Recently, Leurs co-edited the Handbook of media and migration (Sage, 2020) and special issues on ‘Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements’ for the International Journal of Cultural Studies (2023), ‘Digital migration practices and the everyday’ for Communication, Culture & Critique and ‘Inclusive media literacy education for diverse societies’ for  Media and Communication (2022). His previous monograph is Digital passages. Diaspora, gender and youth cultural intersections (Amsterdam University Press, 2015).

• Prologue: Decolonial Healing - Tabita RezaireEditorial Introduction: Media and Migration: Research Encounters - Kevin Smets, Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn & Radhika GajjalaPart 1: KeywordsChapter 1: Mediation - Radha S. HegdeChapter 2: Diaspora as a Frame: How the Notion has Reshaped Migration Studies - Roza TsagarousianouChapter 3: Postcolonial Theory - Sandra PonzanesiChapter 4: Borders - Lilie Chouliaraki & Myria GeorgiouChapter 5: Transnationalism, Inter-nationalism and Multicultural Questions - Koichi IwabuchiChapter 6: Migration and the post-secular - Eva MiddenChapter 7: Cosmopolitanism in the Anthropocene - Miyase ChristensenChapter 8: Intersectionality - Alyssa Fisher, Kaitlyn Wauthier, & Radhika GajjalaChapter 9: Affect, Emotions and Feelings - Donya Alinejad & Domitilia OlivieriChapter 10: Connected Migrants - Dana DiminescuChapter 11: Digital Divides - Linda LeungChapter 12: Information Precarity - Melissa WallChapter 13: Infrastructures - Koen LeursChapter 14: The Political Economy of Digital Media, Migration and Race - Eugenia SiaperaChapter 15: Beyond Media Studies of Migration - Kevin RobinsChapter 16: Insurgent Academics - Roopika RisamPart 2: MethodologiesChapter 17: On Researching Climates of Hostility and Weathering - Yasmin GunaratnamChapter 18: Refracting the Analytical Gaze: Studying Media Representations of Migrant Death at the Border - Karina HorstiChapter 19: Racializing Space. Gendering Place: Black Feminism, Ethnography, and Methodological Challenges Online and IRL - Kishonna GrayChapter 20: Mobile Methods: Doing Migration Research with the Help of Smartphones - Katja KaufmannChapter 21: Mobility, Media, and Data Politics - Will L. AllenChapter 22: Twitter Influentials and the Networked Publics′ Engagement with the Rohingya Crisis in Arabic and English - Ahmed Al-RawiPart 3: CommunitiesChapter 23: The Performative Digital Africa: iROKOtv, Nollywood Televisuals, and Community Building in the African Digital Diaspora - Tori Omega ArthurChapter 24: Queer Migration and Digital Culture - Lukasz SzulcChapter 25: Out of Place: Refugees Navigating Nation, Self, and Culture in Former East Germany - Emily EdwardsChapter 26: (Re)loading Identity and Affective Capital Online: The case of Diaspora Basques on Facebook - Pedro J. OiarzabalChapter 27: Russophone Diasporic Journalism: Production and Producers in the Changing Communicative Landscape - Olga Voronova, Liudmila Voronova, & Dmitry YagodinChapter 28: Airtime and the public sphere: Candela Radio’s contribution to the integration of immigrant communities in the Basque Country - Irati Agirreazkuenaga & Estitxu Garai-ArtetxeChapter 29: Recasting Home: Indian Immigrants and the World Wide Web - Madhavi MallapragadaChapter 30: Migrations and the Media between Asia and Latin America: Japanese Brazilians in Tokyo and Sao Paulo - Jessica RetisPart 4: Borders and RightsChapter 31: Borders and the Contagious Nature of Mediation - Huub DijstelbloemChapter 32: The Oromo Movement and Ethiopian Border-making Using Social Media - Payal AroraChapter 33: Digital Humanitarianism in a Refugee Camp - Léa MaciasChapter 34: The Politics of Vulnerability and Protection: Analysing the Case of LGBT Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands in Light of Securitization and Homonationalist Discourses - Christine Quinan, Dana Theewis, & Cecilia CienfuegosChapter 35: Young Displaced Women in Colombia and Media Use - Melissa ChaconChapter 36: Communication Rights for Immigrants - Cees Hamelink & Maria HaganPart 5: RepresentationsChapter 37: Migration, Race/Ethnicity and Sports Media Content - Jacco van SterkenburgChapter 38: Immigrant Families in European Cinema - Daniela BeghahnChapter 39: Breaking the Silence: From Representations of Victims and Threat Towards Spaces of Voice - Kaarina NikunenChapter 40: Making Space for Oneself: Minorities and Self-Representation in Popular Media - Rosemary PenningtonChapter 41: Representations from a Multi-Stakeholders Perspective: A Research Agenda - Leen d′Haenens & Willem JorisPart 6: SpatialitiesChapter 42: The Migration-Mobility Nexus: The Politics of Interface, Labor and Gender - Saskia Witteborn & Zhuoxiao XieChapter 43: The Cog that Imagines the System: Data Migration and Migrant Bodies in the Wake of Aadhaar - Nishant ShahChapter 44: Automation versus Nationalism: Challenges to the Future of Work in the Software Industry - Nilanjan RaghunathChapter 45: Civic Media, & Placemaking; (Re)Claiming Urban & Migrant Rights Across Digital and Physical Spaces - Giota AlevizouChapter 46: Digital Place-Making Practices and Daily Struggles of Venezuelan Refugees in Brazil - Amanda Paz AlencarChapter 47: Being at Home on Social Media: Online Place-Making among the Kurds in Turkey and Rural Migrants in China - Elisabetta Costa & JinXie WangChapter 48: YouTube as an Intercultural Space: Digital Narratives of Younger-Generation Migrants - Sherry YuPart 7: ConflictsChapter 49: Racisms, Migration and Media: A Reflection on Mutable Understandings and Shifting ′Problem Populations′ - Gavan TitleyChapter 50: Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and Mobilization on the Internet - Mattias EkmanChapter 51: National Politics, Transnational Resistance: Alevi Television during the State of Emergency in Turkey (2016-2018) - Kumru Berfin Emin CetinChapter 52: Diaspora Activism in Host and Home Countries: Motivations, Possibilities and Limits - Christine OganChapter 53: Media, Recognition and Conflict-Generated Diaspora: the Somali Diaspora as a Case Study - Idil OsmanChapter 54: Conflict and Migration in Lebanese Graphic Narratives - Rasha ChattaEpilogue: On Giving and Being a Voice - Zaina Erhaim, Yazan Badran, & Kevin SmetsEpilogue: Self-Reflections on Migration and Exile - Bermal Aydin

Due to the range of its themes, approaches, voices and contexts, this volume will be an indispensable guide to all scholars working on migration and media, and will furthermore open up a new space for methodological and conceptual reflection on a world in which movement and mediation are two sides of the same coin.