UID:
kobvindex_DGP1879866897
Format:
1 Online resource (235 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780228020547
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen’s refugee and forced migration studies 12
Content:
Urban Refugees and Digital Technology explores refugee communities from Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia's growing cities to build a new understanding of how technology reshapes the ways refugees contribute to social, economic, and political networks in urban areas.
Content:
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One Conceptualizing Technology and Urban Displacement in Theory and History -- Urban Refugees in a Digital World -- The Urban Context: Where Displacement and Digitalization Meet -- Technological Change, New Displacement Patterns, and Urbanization -- Digitalization and Urban Administration: Evolutions of Surveillance -- Part Two Contemporary Case Studies and the Digital Future of Urban Displacement -- Methods in the Contemporary Context: Case Studies and Data Collection -- Bogotá: ICT Access in the Neighbourhood -- Kuala Lumpur: Time, Distance, and Legal Exclusion -- Nairobi: Shifting Politics in a Digital Metropolis -- Digitalization and Urban Displacement: Future Scenarios -- The Future: Digitalization, Displacement, and New Urban Societies -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228020523
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Martin-Shields, Charles Urban refugees and digital technology Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024 ISBN 9780228020523
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0228020522
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228020516
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0228020514
Language:
English
Author information:
Martin-Shields, Charles
