UID:
kobvindex_DGP1884378269
Format:
xvii, 216 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
Edition:
Issued also in electronic format
ISBN:
9780228020523
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0228020522
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9780228020516
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0228020514
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen’s refugee and forced migration studies 12
Content:
"Refugees and displaced people are increasingly moving to cities around the world, seeking out the social, economic, and political opportunity that urban areas provide. Against this backdrop digital technologies are fundamentally changing how refugees and displaced people engage with urban landscapes and economies where they settle. Urban Refugees and Digital Technology draws on contemporary data gathered from refugee communities in Bogotá, Nairobi, and Kuala Lumpur to build a new theoretical understanding of how technological change influences the ways urban refugees contribute to the social, economic, and political networks in their cities of arrival. This data is presented against the broader history of technological change in urban areas since the start of industrialization, showing how displaced people across time have used technologized urban spaces to shape the societies where they settle. The case studies and history demonstrate how refugees’ interactions with environments that are often hostile to their presence spur novel adaptations to idiosyncratic features of a city’s technological landscape. A wide-ranging study across histories and geographies of urban displacement, Urban Refugees and Digital Technology introduces readers to the myriad ways technological change creates spaces for urban refugees to build rich lives in cities."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Issued also in electronic format
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228020547
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228020554
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Martin-Shields, Charles P Urban refugees and digital technology Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024 ISBN 0228020530
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228020530
Language:
English
Author information:
Martin-Shields, Charles
