The book by IDOS researcher Dr Charles Martin-Shields, is the outcome of fieldwork in Bogota, Nairobi and Kuala Lumpur, charting the ways technological change since the Industrial Revolution has created spaces for urban displaced people to socially, politically, economically shape their host cities.
Book Cover “Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Reshaping social, political, and economic networks”.
Entitled “Urban Refugees and Digital Technology: Reshaping social, political, and economic networks”, the launch of the book took place on 8 October 2024 at the University of Amsterdam. The event was hosted by the Amsterdam Research Centre for Migration. Professors Koen Leurs from the University of Utrecht and Amanda Paz Alencar from Erasmus University joined as discussants. Based on a fieldwork, the results show how digital technological change is reducing the salience of work as a reason to move to cities, while increasing the importance of international networks in providing social, economic and political support to urban refugees.
The research was financially supported by BMZ, and the book is available open access through Carleton University’s library.
