Migrants are connected for a variety of reasons (Leurs and Prabhakar 2018, p. 247), and in a myriad of ways (Cabalquinto 2018; Özdemir, Mutluer, and Özyürek 2019; Gencel Bek and Prieto-Blanco 2020). Drawing from a larger project of ethnographic nature (Prieto-Blanco 2016b), this paper argues that photographic practices advance socialization in transnational families, and that each practice activates certain relational affordances to support bonding and familial intimacy. This also serves to offer an alternative reading of phatic communication (Malinowski 1923) as an emotion‐based process. Finally, the paper proposes to understand (digital) photography as a medium of (inter)action and experience for transnational families.Les migrants sont l...
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Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within...
International audienceSince photography was invented, its techniques and uses have kept evolving thr...
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Family photography, a ubiquitous domestic tradition in the developed world, is now more popular than...
The visuality of apps such as Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp is becoming more apparent, especiall...
Photographs traverse the world in many forms and for many purposes. They follow and trace movements ...
This article examines transnational kinship relations between Gambian parents in the United Kingdom ...
International audienceThis article explores how the potentialities of digital media amplify processe...
Increasingly, snapshots taken with mobile phone appear to be living a less autonomous life, as they ...
Migrant communities copiously use digital means to communicate. The visual component of comm...
Spatial dislocation of migrants is a catalyst for early, heavy and informed media use (Ponzanesi & L...
We take selfies, photograph our lunches, and use cameras as note‐taking devices. As our lives play o...
Aims. – Through the implementation of photographic mediation, we aim to show the advantages of the u...
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within...
International audienceSince photography was invented, its techniques and uses have kept evolving thr...
This paper explores how photography was used by immigrants to Canada in the post-war period as a way...
This article examines how photographic practices in collaborative research might mediate migrant voi...
This essay explores visual representations of migration by drawing on a Swedish case to reflect on b...
Family photography, a ubiquitous domestic tradition in the developed world, is now more popular than...
The visuality of apps such as Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp is becoming more apparent, especiall...
Photographs traverse the world in many forms and for many purposes. They follow and trace movements ...
This article examines transnational kinship relations between Gambian parents in the United Kingdom ...
International audienceThis article explores how the potentialities of digital media amplify processe...
Increasingly, snapshots taken with mobile phone appear to be living a less autonomous life, as they ...