Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography
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Resumo: | The article explores the digital everyday life of recently or currently undocumented migrants in times of Covid-19 in Finland. It is based on an empirical case study on a collaborative photographic exhibition and workshop including visual images, diaries, interviews, and discussions. The analysis explores the ways in which a photography exhibition and a workshop may depict meaningful moments in digital everyday life as well as open up an understanding of the various vulnerabilities that emerge in the life of the undocumented, as expressed by themselves. The study demonstrates the fundamental importance of communication rights for people in precarious life situations, expressed by themselves in visual images. The insight produced multidimensionally in images, discussions, and interviews illustrate how digital media environment exposes to coerced visibility and requires constant struggle for communicative rights. These struggles take place on the material infrastructural level of devices, chargers, and access, but also on the level of self-expression and connection on social media platforms. Finally, the article discusses the emancipatory potential of a collaborative exhibition and workshop as a way to encounter and deal with increasingly vulnerable life situations. It points out the relevance of collaborative work as a research method, in providing knowledge from experience as well as space of recognition. |
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photographycommunicative rights; datafication; digital everyday life; participation; photography; undocumented migrants; visibilityThe article explores the digital everyday life of recently or currently undocumented migrants in times of Covid-19 in Finland. It is based on an empirical case study on a collaborative photographic exhibition and workshop including visual images, diaries, interviews, and discussions. The analysis explores the ways in which a photography exhibition and a workshop may depict meaningful moments in digital everyday life as well as open up an understanding of the various vulnerabilities that emerge in the life of the undocumented, as expressed by themselves. The study demonstrates the fundamental importance of communication rights for people in precarious life situations, expressed by themselves in visual images. The insight produced multidimensionally in images, discussions, and interviews illustrate how digital media environment exposes to coerced visibility and requires constant struggle for communicative rights. These struggles take place on the material infrastructural level of devices, chargers, and access, but also on the level of self-expression and connection on social media platforms. Finally, the article discusses the emancipatory potential of a collaborative exhibition and workshop as a way to encounter and deal with increasingly vulnerable life situations. It points out the relevance of collaborative work as a research method, in providing knowledge from experience as well as space of recognition.Cogitatio2022-06-30info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i2.5036oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5036Media and Communication; Vol 10, No 2 (2022): Media and Migration in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Discourses, Policies, and Practices in Times of Crisis; 218-2292183-2439reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5036https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i2.5036https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5036/5036Copyright (c) 2022 Kaarina Nikunen, Sanna Valtoneninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessNikunen, KaarinaValtonen, Sanna2022-12-20T10:57:49Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/5036Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:20:32.300195Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography |
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography |
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography Nikunen, Kaarina communicative rights; datafication; digital everyday life; participation; photography; undocumented migrants; visibility |
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography |
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography |
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography |
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography |
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Precariousness and Hope: Digital Everyday Life of the Undocumented Migrants Explored Through Collaborative Photography |
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Nikunen, Kaarina |
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Nikunen, Kaarina Valtonen, Sanna |
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Valtonen, Sanna |
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Nikunen, Kaarina Valtonen, Sanna |
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communicative rights; datafication; digital everyday life; participation; photography; undocumented migrants; visibility |
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communicative rights; datafication; digital everyday life; participation; photography; undocumented migrants; visibility |
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The article explores the digital everyday life of recently or currently undocumented migrants in times of Covid-19 in Finland. It is based on an empirical case study on a collaborative photographic exhibition and workshop including visual images, diaries, interviews, and discussions. The analysis explores the ways in which a photography exhibition and a workshop may depict meaningful moments in digital everyday life as well as open up an understanding of the various vulnerabilities that emerge in the life of the undocumented, as expressed by themselves. The study demonstrates the fundamental importance of communication rights for people in precarious life situations, expressed by themselves in visual images. The insight produced multidimensionally in images, discussions, and interviews illustrate how digital media environment exposes to coerced visibility and requires constant struggle for communicative rights. These struggles take place on the material infrastructural level of devices, chargers, and access, but also on the level of self-expression and connection on social media platforms. Finally, the article discusses the emancipatory potential of a collaborative exhibition and workshop as a way to encounter and deal with increasingly vulnerable life situations. It points out the relevance of collaborative work as a research method, in providing knowledge from experience as well as space of recognition. |
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