Feeling unwanted: placemaking in EU Settlement Scheme digital communities

Feeling unwanted: navigating bureaucracy, solidarity, and placemaking in EU Settlement Scheme digital communities

A Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre event.

As immigration makes the daily headlines in the UK, less attention is paid to the digital realities of migrants themselves, before and after their move, during application and settlement.

Beyond the politicisation of modern migration, migrant digital communities have thrived, demonstrating a remarkable ability to map their environment and offer advice, bridging communication gaps that have plagued schemes such as the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) in the UK.

Presenting results from research performed in large EUSS-related Facebook communities for over a year and engaging with the visual content shared by applicants/users, this talk considers scholarship on digital placemaking to advance new insights into digital migrant communities as complex and emotional spaces of advice-seeking, reproducing much of the scheme’s bureaucratic nature, in which forms of solidarity are weakened or challenged.

The talk also introduces the 'Online Subjectivities of Transnational Migration' research project, which examines how digital spaces and discourse can forge emotions and foster new forms of solidarity.

Presenters

Prof. Jenny Harding, Professor of Media and Culture at London Met's School of Computing and Digital Media.

Dr Helton Levy, Lecturer in Digital and Visual Media at London Met's School of Computing and Digital Media.

The Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre is a home for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship that explores migration, diasporas, nations, regions and localities through the lenses of diversity and inequality.

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