Virtual Migration. Brazilian Diasporic Media and the Reconfigurations of Place and Space
This paper discusses the implications of the current developments in communication media on the form, content and place of Brazilian migrant communities in Europe. It is argued that Internet supports both deterritorialization and reterritorialization of diasporic Brazilians in Amsterdam and Barcelon...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/remi, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Revue européenne des migrations internationales
2013
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | This paper discusses the implications of the current developments in communication media on the form, content and place of Brazilian migrant communities in Europe. It is argued that Internet supports both deterritorialization and reterritorialization of diasporic Brazilians in Amsterdam and Barcelona. Brazilian migrants employ virtual communities on social network sites to sustain grassroots networks that facilitate migration and settlement in the cities of destination. The rise of virtual migrant communities on social network sites opens up new pathways for community formation and information sharing in and across cities and contributes to the formation of a Brazilian diasporic public sphere. Social network sites provide the possibility to crosslink migrants to one another in a relatively flat network of communication while they also present new spaces on which to project a symbolic community. These new community spaces on the Internet reproduce and alter existing indications of space and place as migrants identify with multiple localities simultaneously or intermittently, while generally holding on to their Brazilian cultural and/or national background as an important part of their sense of belonging. |
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