Marie Gillespie|Souad Osseiran|Margie Cheesman
Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances
The Open University|Sabanc? Üniversitesi|University of Oxford
research examines role smartphones refugees journeys traces risks possibilities afforded smartphones facilitating information communication migration flows digital passage europe syrian iraqi refugee respondents francebased qualitative study smartphones lifelines important water food afford planning navigation documentation journeys enabling regular contact family friends smugglers help however refugees simultaneously exposed new forms exploitation surveillance smartphones migrations financialised smugglers criminalized european policies digital passage dependent contingent range sociotechnical material assemblages infrastructural lens capture dialectical dynamics opportunity vulnerability forms resilience solidarity arise forced migration digital connectivity coincide