Digital technologies and migration: behind, beyond and around the black box.
Digital technologies have often been criticised due to their tendency to operate as 'black boxes', owing to their complexity and opacity, which pose challenges to understanding their inner mechanisms and outputs. This article presents the conceptual framework for this special issue aimed at shifting...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 51; no. 14; pp. 3571 - 3590 |
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