TY - JOUR
T1 - Asylum-Related Migrants’ Social-Media Use, Mobility Decisions, and Resilience
AU - Merisalo, Maria
AU - Jauhiainen, Jussi S.
N1 - Funding Information:
The main funding agency of this research is Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland (Grant No. 303617). We thank all asylum-related migrants who answered the surveys. In addition, we thank research assistants and translators, anonymous reviewers, and the main funding agency of this research?Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The article examines asylum-related migrants’ social-media use along their asylum journeys. In total, 2,454 migrants from 37 countries answered a semistructured survey conducted in Jordan; Turkey; Iran; and in the European “hotspots,” Lesvos, Greece, and Lampedusa, Italy. Of the respondents, 83% used at least one social-media service in their current locations, 55% acknowledged that social media makes their asylum-related life easier, and 51% responded that social media helped them decide where to move to in Europe. Migrants’ socioeconomic and demographic differences, social capital, and future views explain their social-media use in relation to their mobility decisions and resilience.
AB - The article examines asylum-related migrants’ social-media use along their asylum journeys. In total, 2,454 migrants from 37 countries answered a semistructured survey conducted in Jordan; Turkey; Iran; and in the European “hotspots,” Lesvos, Greece, and Lampedusa, Italy. Of the respondents, 83% used at least one social-media service in their current locations, 55% acknowledged that social media makes their asylum-related life easier, and 51% responded that social media helped them decide where to move to in Europe. Migrants’ socioeconomic and demographic differences, social capital, and future views explain their social-media use in relation to their mobility decisions and resilience.
KW - Asylum
KW - migrant
KW - mobility
KW - refugee
KW - social media
KW - social networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087562133&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15562948.2020.1781991
DO - 10.1080/15562948.2020.1781991
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087562133
SN - 1556-2948
VL - 19
SP - 184
EP - 198
JO - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
JF - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
IS - 2
ER -
