Description: Urban Refugees and Digital Technology explores refugee communities from Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia's growing cities to build a new understanding of how technology reshapes the ways refugees contribute to social, economic, and political networks in urban areas.
Brief description: Charles Martin-Shields is senior researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability.
Review Quotes: "This strongly theorized and historically aware study, presenting rich empirical material, will shape the emergent interdisciplinary research area of digital migration studies, with potential to positively influence policy and planning. The book offers key new insights on an understudied population while avoiding a tokenistic account. Charles Martin-Shields innovatively combines contemporary and historical approaches to offer new conceptual understandings of refugee integration." Koen Leurs, Utrecht University and author of Digital Migration