Migrant and Refugee Students in New Experiences of Family Ties: Media, Surveillance and Sociability

Based on the highly mediatized arrival of migrants and refugees in Greece, over last decades, this paper focuses media technologies consumption Albanian Syrian students, analyzes way family ties are experienced at a distance. Civil wars, anti-regime protests, economic difficulties climate change have forced large numbers people to escape from their countries, live as or displaced homeland remain context surveillance, uncertainty insecurity. Media digital platforms contribute communication members national communities diaspora, give access information education. Thus, aim is describe new experiences sociability education for children who been, still transition temporary situation. Drawing two ethnographic studies - one 2005 migrant Albania living agricultural area other refugee families staying camp Athens presents everyday practices mobility.