Call for a special issue of Chinese Journal of Communication on Transnational Migration to/from China: The Role of Digital Platforms, Publics, and Policies. Deadline: 31 July 2025.
Issue editors: Saif Shahin, Mingyi Hou, and Sagnik Dutta (all at Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
This special issue of the Chinese Journal of Communication aims to expand our understanding of transnational migration in the digital age, especially as it relates to platforms, publics, and policies. It explores how digital platforms (Chinese and non-Chinese), their sociotechnical affordances, and the discourses they produce (or censor) bear upon transnational migration between China and various parts of the world, including Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa, and Latin America, as well as North America, Europe and the rest of Asia. Editors are particularly interested in submissions that draw attention to the implications of digital technologies for migrant communities and the relations of power they (re)produce, user practices that work with or around digital affordances to achieve individual or collective goals, and national or supranational laws and regulations that shape digital industries and ecosystems and their impact on transnational migration.
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