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The Migration Mobile challenges policy frameworks to examine the network of diverse actors co-constituting the changing meanings of migration, detention, deportation, and destitution. A must-read for students, academics, and all those who work with or are interested in contemporary migration.--Marie Gillespie, The Open University, UK The Migration Mobile provides a unique overview of how deeply the key concepts on which societies are built such as population, identity, trust, infrastructures, dissidence, and resistance are intertwined with migration and mobility. A must read for anyone interested in social transformation, mobility, and the sociotechnical infrastructure of living together - and the resulting tensions.--Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam This important book brings together exciting and original new work on the relationship between migration, borders, and technology. Through a series of fascinating studies, the contributors chart the role of technology in constituting migration and migrants - through both practices of control and enabling forms of resistance and subversion.--Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh

The Migration Mobile challenges policy frameworks to examine the network of diverse actors co-constituting changing meanings of migration, detention, deportation, and destitution. A must-read for students, academics, and all those who work with or are interested in contemporary migration.--Marie Gillespie, The Open University, UK The Migration Mobile provides a unique overview of how deeply the key concepts on which societies are built such as population, identity, trust, infrastructures, dissidence, and resistance are intertwined with migration and mobility. A must read for anyone interested in social transformation, mobility, and the sociotechnical infrastructure of living together - and the tensions this leads to.--Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam This important book brings together exciting and original new work on the relationship between migration, borders, and technology. Through a series of fascinating studies, the book charts the role of technology in constituting migration and migrants - both through practices of control, and in enabling forms of resistance and subversion.--Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh

The Migration Mobile provides a unique overview of how deeply the key concepts on which societies are built such as population, identity, trust, infrastructures, dissidence, and resistance are intertwined with migration and mobility. A must read for anyone interested in social transformation, mobility, and the sociotechnical infrastructure of living together - and the tensions this leads to.--Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam This important book brings together exciting and original new work on the relationship between migration, borders, and technology. Through a series of fascinating studies, the book charts the role of technology in constituting migration and migrants - both through practices of control, and in enabling forms of resistance and subversion.--Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh

The Migration Mobile challenges policy frameworks to examine the network of diverse actors co-constituting the changing meanings of migration, detention, deportation, and destitution. A must-read for students, academics, and all those who work with or are interested in contemporary migration. --Marie Gillespie, The Open University, UK The Migration Mobile provides a unique overview of how deeply the key concepts on which societies are built such as population, identity, trust, infrastructures, dissidence, and resistance are intertwined with migration and mobility. A must read for anyone interested in social transformation, mobility, and the sociotechnical infrastructure of living together - and the resulting tensions. --Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam This important book brings together exciting and original new work on the relationship between migration, borders, and technology. Through a series of fascinating studies, the contributors chart the role of technology in constituting migration and migrants - through both practices of control and enabling forms of resistance and subversion. --Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh

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Vasilis Galis is Associate Professor in the Technologies in Practice Group at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Martin Bak Jørgensen is an Associate Professor affiliated with the Center for the Study of Migration and Diversity at Aalborg University, Denmark. Marie Sandberg is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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