1st Edition
Networks of Belonging Refugee and Migrant Inclusion in Australia, and Digital Communication
1. Introduction: Mobilities, Migrants and Media Part I: History of Refugee and Migrant Inclusion and Connection 2. Refugee and Migrant Inclusion from ‘White Australia’ to Post-Pandemic 3. Migrant Letters as Foundational Networks of Transnational Communication Part II: The Inclusion-Exclusion Dyad 4. Refugee and Migrant Social Inclusion and Belonging in Australia 5. Refugee and Migrant Social Exclusion in Australia Part III: The Digital-Physical and Local-Global Dyads 6. Digital Communication and Interstitial Spaces for Refugee and Migrant Connection 7. Place, Belonging and Home in Local-Global Settings 8. Conclusion: Communication and Belonging in Refugee and Migrant Lives
Biography
Estelle Boyle is a Research Associate at Monash University, Australia, and a Teaching Associate in Media and Communications at The University of Melbourne. Her research examines how contemporary digital communications technologies impact social inclusion and belonging for resettled refugees and migrants. Her work spans the intersections of digital communication and connectivity, digital and social inclusion, migration and refugee experiences, belonging, and multiculturalism.
This book presents a nuanced and sensitive analysis of the complex relational dynamics of establishing and maintaining belonging and connection across local and global scales. Boyle’s work combines a careful tracing of the historical roots of Australia’s “enduring architecture” of inclusion and exclusion with a rich analysis of the words and photographs of refugees and migrants in Melbourne, making it a must-read for all scholars of migrant belonging, transnational relations and contemporary digital cultures.
Leah Williams Veazey, Research Fellow, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of SydneyThis book clearly outlines timely and concrete evidence as to the transformative dynamics of digital media in the experience of belonging and inclusion of migrants and refugees. It is a salient case study of the Australian social, cultural, political and historical context that involves both multicultural identities alongside dimensions of exclusion. It is a useful and very palatable read for anyone interested in digital migration studies and the multilayered and multiscalar fluxes of attachment.
Dr. Colleen Boland, Posdoctoral Resarcher, Radboud University Centre for Migration Law, the Netherlands
