Description du projet
Exploiter le potentiel des diasporas numériques
L’Europe est confrontée au défi d’accueillir de nouveaux immigrants, y compris des sans-papiers, ce qui entraîne une ségrégation sexuelle et ethnique, en particulier chez les femmes migrantes. Dans ce contexte, le projet CONNECTINGEUROPE, financé par le CER, s’intéressera au concept de «migrant connecté». En étudiant les communautés virtuelles de migrants, connues sous le nom de diasporas numériques, le projet analysera les dynamiques complexes de la technologie, de la migration, de la mondialisation, de l’aliénation et de l’appartenance. Il examinera également l’impact des technologies numériques sur la promotion de l’intégration européenne tout en luttant contre la ségrégation sexuelle et ethnique, et en promouvant en fin de compte une vision cosmopolite de la diversité du continent. Le projet s’intéressera plus particulièrement aux diasporas numériques au sein des communautés somalienne, turque et roumaine, offrant une perspective comparative en recueillant et en cartographiant le comportement en ligne des femmes migrantes à travers l’Europe.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
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Régime de financement
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitution d’accueil
3584 CS Utrecht
Pays-Bas