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| Language: | English |
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Zenodo
2018
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17996141 |
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- <p>This paper explores how today’s digital communication tools—such as social media, smartphones and online platforms—are quietly reshaping the lives of migrants and diasporic communities. Technology now allows people to stay connected with loved ones, maintain cultural practices and build supportive networks, even when they are thousands of kilometres away. Through examples from different migrant groups, the study shows how everyday online interactions help people feel rooted in both their new surroundings and the homes they left behind. </p> <p>The paper also reflects on how these technologies create new forms of belonging. Migrants use digital spaces not only to communicate but to share memories, negotiate identity and participate in community life across borders. At the same time, the research acknowledges that digital communication can also intensify political tensions, unequal participation and cultural conflicts. Overall, the study argues that ICTs have become more than tools—they now act as living spaces where migrants rebuild relationships, preserve identity and construct new ways of being part of a global diaspora </p> <p>Migration and the Internet: Social Networking and Diasporas’ brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on how new communication technologies are reshaping migrant life. It examines how individuals and families use digital tools to build transnational connections and sustain diasporic identities. Although interest in the themes of migration and ICTs has grown steadily, this special issue goes beyond describing technological use. It offers deeper insights into how digital communication actively influences human mobility and community formation. This collection studies a wide range of dispersed populations—including Albanians, Arabs, Basques, Croatians, Han, Hindus, Kurds, Romanians, Turks, Salvadorans, Serbians and Sikhs— and explores how they engage with global communication networks. The contributors, drawn from leading scholars at the intersection of migration studies and emerging technologies, provide both theoretical reflection and empirical analysis from fields such as sociology, psychology, political science, and media studies. Together, the essays highlight recent methodological developments in Internet-based research and their implications for migration studies. </p>