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Date of this Version
Fall 2016
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This CARGC Paper drew on Sheller’s Distinguished Lecture and presented a project in collaboration with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and French curator Guillaume Logé. For many refugees, smartphones have become their most valuable asset. While theories of migration have long spoken of the “double absence” of migrants (both from their country of origin and from their host country), Sheller identified that certain researchers now allude to the “double presence” made possible by ICT. This paper explored the increasingly intrinsic overlap between physical and virtual mobility.
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Sheller, Mimi, "On the Maintenance of Humanity: Learning from Refugee Mobile Practices" (2016). CARGC Papers. 3.
https://repository.upenn.edu/cargc_papers/3
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Communication
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