Abstract
Digital Exiles provides a treasure trove of insight into how the digital economy continues to exclude and marginalize those who may stand to benefit most from digital work. Through an ambitious multi-sited ethnography spanning three countries, Hackl demonstrates that digital technologies do not liberate refugees from the constraints of place and space. Instead, digital work is embedded within—and can reproduce—the infrastructural, institutional, social, and economic inequalities that structure refugees’ lives. The book makes an important contribution to ICT and development studies, as well as scholarship on refugees and digital labor, by explaining how and why digital livelihoods programs do not produce their intended objectives of hypermobility, liberation, and economic inclusion.
Recommended Citation
Lee, M. T.
(in press).
Book Review: Digital Exiles: Refugee Work in the Global Digital Economy.
Information Technology for Development.
Available at:
https://aisel.aisnet.org/itd_forthcoming/33