Descrizione del progetto
Sfruttare il potenziale delle diaspore digitali
L’Europa deve affrontare la sfida di accogliere nuovi immigrati, compresi quelli privi di documenti, con conseguente segregazione di genere ed etnica, in particolare tra le donne migranti. In questo contesto, il progetto CONNECTINGEUROPE, finanziato dal CER, si concentrerà sul concetto di «migrante connesso». Studiando le comunità virtuali di migranti, note come diaspore digitali, il progetto esplorerà le intricate dinamiche di tecnologia, migrazione, globalizzazione, alienazione e appartenenza. Verrà inoltre analizzato l’impatto delle tecnologie digitali nel promuovere l’integrazione europea e nel combattere la segregazione etnica e di genere, promuovendo in definitiva una visione cosmopolita della diversità del continente. In particolare, il progetto si concentrerà sulle diaspore digitali all’interno delle comunità somale, turche e rumene, offrendo una prospettiva comparativa attraverso la raccolta e la mappatura dei comportamenti online delle donne migranti in tutta Europa.
Obiettivo
Many immigrants enter Europe both legally and illegally every year. This creates multiple challenges for the Union, including the gender and ethnic segregation of migrant groups, especially women. While it strives for an inclusive and integrated society as envisioned by the EU motto ‘Unity in Diversity’, it is still often perceived more as ‘Fortress Europe.’ This project focuses on the ‘connected migrant’, studying how virtual communities of migrants, or digital diasporas, convey issues of technology, migration, globalisation, alienation and belonging capturing the lives of migrants in their interaction with multiple worlds and media.
More specifically, it will investigate whether digital technologies enhance European integration or foster gender and ethnic segregation, and, if so, how. Using a multi-layered and cutting-edge approach that draws from the humanities, social science and new media studies (i.e. internet studies and mobile media), this research considers: 1. How migration and digital technologies enable digital diasporas (Somali, Turkish, Romanian) and the impact these have on identity, gender and belonging in European urban centres; 2. How these entanglements are connected to and perceived from outside Europe by focusing on transnational ties; and 3. How digital connections create new possibilities for cosmopolitan outlooks, rearticulating Europe’s motto of ‘Unity in Diversity.’
The outcomes of this work will be innovative at three levels. a) Empirically, the project gathers, maps and critically grounds online behaviour by migrant women from a European comparative perspective. b) Methodologically, it breaks new ground by developing new methods of analysis for digital diasporas contributing to the development of ‘postcolonial’ digital humanities. c) Conceptually, it integrates colonial and migrant relations into the idea of Europe, elaborating on the notion of cosmopolitan belonging through virtual connectivity.
Campo scientifico
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantIstituzione ospitante
3584 CS Utrecht
Paesi Bassi