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Geographies of migration I: Platform migration

Author(s) -

Francis L. Collins

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

progress in human geography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.283

H-Index - 146

eISSN - 1477-0288

pISSN - 0309-1325

DOI - 10.1177/0309132520973445

Subject(s) - sociotechnical system , temporalities , multinational corporation , economic geography , migration studies , sociology , political science , geography , gender studies , knowledge management , computer science , law

This first report on research about the geographies of migration examines the sociotechnical platforms that enable migration and shape its outcomes. I begin by examining two areas of recent inquiry that analyse (1) commercial actors that form migration industries and (2) the broader infrastructures that underpin and direct migration. To elaborate on these insights, I also discuss observations of multinational (stepwise) migration as grounded evidence for the importance of sociotechnical systems in understanding the geographies of migration. Addressing platform migration reconfigures the spatialities and temporalities of migration, highlighting the diverse and distributed actors, networks and institutions generating, directing and constraining movement in the world.

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