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Refusing Shame and Inertia: A Mobile Heterotopia in a Migrant Camp

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dc.creatorDixon, Natalie
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-06T14:08:19Z
dc.date.available2021-05-06T14:08:19Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, mobile communication is examined in the context of forced migration from an affective perspective using the case study of an informal migrant camp that was established in 2015 at Budapest’s Keleti train station. Drawing on concepts of migration, affect and media, I examine various news reports and social media commentary about the camp as well as the makeshift Wi-Fi network that was established there in relation to Hungarian populist politics. I posit the station as a site of contestation between migrants, the Hungarian government and non-governmental actors that speaks to the politicisation of communication technology. The conclusion points to how mobile communication provides a way for forced migrants to create a heterotopic space in extreme conditions as the migrant community is affectively moored by media practices that enable feelings of familiarity and security. These practices not only constitute a kind of refuge for migrants but also offer a form of refusal, however small, towards the shaming and inertia they experience.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15788
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/16623
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectMigrationde
dc.subjectUngarnde
dc.subjectSchamde
dc.subjectAffektde
dc.subjectMobiltelefonde
dc.subjectMobilkommunikationde
dc.subjectsoziales Kapitalde
dc.subjectSoziale Mediende
dc.subjectHungaryen
dc.subjectshameen
dc.subjectaffecten
dc.subjectmobile phoneen
dc.subjectmobile communicationen
dc.subjectsocial capitalen
dc.subjectsocial mediaen
dc.subject.ddcddc:305
dc.titleRefusing Shame and Inertia: A Mobile Heterotopia in a Migrant Campen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:33:19
local.identifier.firstpublisheddoi:https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2019-0108
local.source.epage143
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleInequalities and Divides in Digital Cultures
local.source.spage125
local.source.volume5

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