This paper aims to explore the significance that social media plays in the lives of transnational migrants. Building on data collected during a six-month online/offline ethnography conducted among the members of a Facebook group for Italian migrants in Toronto, it is argued here that diasporic online communities provide a privileged location to capture the complex process of identity transformation undergone by migrants. Data suggests that research into online communities allows for a dynamic and adaptive understanding of the migratory experience capable of recognising the lives of migrants not just as the results of single events, but as trajectories that could help reach a better understanding of the evolution of life courses, as well as changes in social status.

Gius Chiara (2021). Online communities as points of observation of the transnational migrant career: a case study on Italian immigrants in Toronto. JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 47(11), 2634-2649 [10.1080/1369183X.2019.1684247].

Online communities as points of observation of the transnational migrant career: a case study on Italian immigrants in Toronto

Gius Chiara
2021

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This paper aims to explore the significance that social media plays in the lives of transnational migrants. Building on data collected during a six-month online/offline ethnography conducted among the members of a Facebook group for Italian migrants in Toronto, it is argued here that diasporic online communities provide a privileged location to capture the complex process of identity transformation undergone by migrants. Data suggests that research into online communities allows for a dynamic and adaptive understanding of the migratory experience capable of recognising the lives of migrants not just as the results of single events, but as trajectories that could help reach a better understanding of the evolution of life courses, as well as changes in social status.
2021
Gius Chiara (2021). Online communities as points of observation of the transnational migrant career: a case study on Italian immigrants in Toronto. JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES, 47(11), 2634-2649 [10.1080/1369183X.2019.1684247].
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