The digital border: Mobility beyond territorial and symbolic divides
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In this article, we develop a definition of the digital border as an assemblage of mediations that articulates digital and other technologies with symbolic resources to draw boundaries of inside/outside both on the ground (territorial border) and in narrative (symbolic border). We subsequently sketch the contours of this assemblage through an emphasis on its dynamics of mediation, its dialectics of resistance and its trajectories of historicity and argue for the significance of this conceptualisation of the digital border in migration research.
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Digital technologies that are used at borders, and visualizations of migration circulated in digital media, raise a new 'digital border' intended 'to protect' European citizens from migrants.
“Digital technologies that are used at borders, and visualizations of migration circulated in digital media raise a new 'digital border' (Chouliaraki and Georgiou, 2019) intended 'to protect' European citizens from migrants.”
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The Introduction (page unavailable) links digital border controls with migration narratives in digital news, and the Conclusion describes the digital border as an assemblage of surveillance and representation. The paper discusses security and portrayals of migrants as threats, but the passages do not establish that this assemblage is intended specifically to protect European citizens from migrants. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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- Authors
- Chouliaraki, L., & Georgiou, M.
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Chouliaraki, Lilie
- Venue
- European Journal of Communication
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-12
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 594-605
- ISSN
- 0267-3231 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-3705
- OpenAlex
- W2995102001
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 9.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- orcid.org
- Locations
- European Journal of Communication (publishedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Demography › Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
- Keywords
- digital borders, territorial boundaries, symbolic boundaries, migration, assemblage, mediation (cultural/media theory), resistance, digital technologies, migration narratives, historicity
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