Silvia Almenara Niebla

Vrije Universiteit Brussel | VUB · Department of Communication Sciences

Este artículo analiza la construcción de memorias e identidades en campamentos de refugiados de larga duración. La perpetuación de los conflictos transforma, radicalmente, la concepción temporal de estos lugares, que se convierten, según la denominación de algunos autores, en “espacios de espera”, “espacios anómalos” o “agujeros espaciotemporales”....

While there is increasing scholarly attention given to the impact of digital technologies on forced migration, the points of view and situated experiences of refugees living in the diaspora are understudied. This article addresses Sahrawis refugee diasporas, which have close ties with the Sahrawi political cause. Resulting from the unresolved Weste...

The concept of home relates to feelings of belonging coupled with emotionally meaningful relationships. In protracted refugee situations, the concept of home is re-signified by the material and symbolic conditions of living in exile. This article focuses on the Sahrawi refugee diaspora in the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria to examine the role of...

This chapter details the encounter between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, underlining the significance of this relation for the development of Atlantic world history. At the beginning of the fifteenth century the Kingdom of Portugal took the lead of exploration, trade, and colonization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Later, Spaniards came to occupy minor...

El concepto de diáspora describe a poblaciones transnacionales que construyen imaginarios de pertenencia. En ellas, las mujeres se posicionan como garantes de la tradición de la comunidad. Sin embargo, la aparición de las tecnologías digitales ha supuesto un desafío debido a la posibilidad de mostrar la diversidad inherente a las poblaciones diaspó...

In recent decades, the transnational approach to the study of human mobility processes has nurtured different fields of social science with perspectives and approaches that have challenged so-called methodological nationalism, emphasizing practices and social relations across borders (Wimmer and Glick Schiller 2003). New theoretical and empirical i...

The theoretical development of the concept of diaspora accounts for almost any transnational population that maintains strong emotional ties based on nostalgia and memory with their territories of origin, but also affects and ties with their territories of destination. These processes are generated through intrinsically diverse experiences that are...

Este trabajo se propone ofrecer el estado del arte de los estudios migratorios digitales, un campo de análisis emergente dentro de las Ciencias Sociales. En los últimos años, diferentes investigaciones enmarcadas en la temática de migraciones, diásporas y medios de comunicación han confluido en un campo teórico que pretende comprender cómo los proc...

The lives of refugees are highly mediated. Media and technologies affect the daily experiences and trajectories of refugees in numerous ways while on the move as well as while settling into new homelands. Mediation processes also inform broader societal and political meanings that are assigned to refugees, as the figure of “the refugee” is constant...

This article evaluates the concept of ‘emotivescapes’ as a way of addressing digitally emotional processes of belonging among conflict-generated diasporas. It examines the empirical potential of the concept based on the Sahrawi refugee diaspora in Spain and Mauritania and the connection of its members with their ‘home-camps’ in Algeria. To this end...

Este trabajo es la traducción del capítulo escrito por las autoras: Campos Serrano, A. y Almenara-Niebla, S. "Of how Spaniards related to SubSaharans: a long history of marginal connections". A tight embrace. Narratives and Dynamics of Euro-African Relations. Ed. Zoppi, Marco. Londres & New York: Rowman and Littlefeld, 2020 Como extremo surocciden...

This thesis examines gendered migration processes within the contemporary digital media landscape. It aims to understand the impact of digital technologies on everyday refugee diasporic processes. To this end, it explores the particular case of Sahrawi women as the main protagonists of one of the most enduring refugee crises. Over the years, Sahraw...