Syrian Refugees and the Digital Passage to Europe: Smartphone Infrastructures and Affordances

This research examines the role of smartphones in refugees’ journeys. It traces the risks and possibilities afforded by smartphones for facilitating information, communication, and migration flows in the digital passage to Europe. For the Syrian and Iraqi refugee respondents in this France-based qua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marie Gillespie, Souad Osseiran, Margie Cheesman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-03-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118764440