Digital media, friendships and migrants’ entangled and non-linear inclusion and exclusion

In this article, I shed light on the role of digital media and friendships in migrants’ inclusion exclusion. Connecting empirical findings a qualitative, non-media centric, multi-method study to existing research migration studies, friendship as well literature exclusion, propose concept entangled This perspective underlines continuous (re-) negotiations their situatedness (trans-)local spaces places they come from, move through. While playing diverse roles development maintenance (trans-) local friendships, contribute non-linearities subjective feelings being included or excluded, making processes involved more complex while also serving material symbolic signifiers