Dana Diminescu’s research while affiliated with Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and other places

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Publications (21)


Digital Diasporas Atlas Exploration and Cartography of Diasporas in Digital Networks
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August 2021

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Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Dana Diminescu

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Renault Matthieu

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Bourgeois Mehdi

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We will present the digital methodological chain and the tools we developed for building the Digital Diasporas Atlas which aims at mapping and analyzing the occupation of digital diasporas by migrant communities. Such a chain is composed of four intertwined steps: 1) equipped web exploration and corpus building; 2) data enrichment (location, languages, text-mining); 3) network visualization- manipulation and graph interpretation; 4) collaborative sharing of (raw) data and findings. The Digital Diasporas Atlas takes part in the project of introducing digital methods in humanities: promoting digitally equipped social sciences and developing an engineering informed by humanities.



Traces of dispersion: Online media and diasporic identities

March 2014

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Crossings Journal of Migration and Culture

Drawing mainly on the e-Diasporas Atlas project (www.e-diasporas.fr), this article seeks to understand how the web has affected diasporic self-representations. More specifically, by engaging with both media theory and migration studies, it addresses the new modes of boundary formations that arise in the context of migration flows, and how these are mediated by the web. It sheds light on two main levels of online diasporic identity-building. The first can be situated firmly within a paradigm of ‘graphic reason’, and relates to the socio-semiotic traces documented on diasporic websites. The second examines traces of another kind, which are formed by the hyperlinked networks of e-Diasporas on the web, and which can be situated within a paradigm of ‘digital reason’. Some of the consequences for diasporic identity-formation are drawn out, particularly issues relating to strategies of visibility on the web.



Table 1 Comparison of the national migrant workforce and our sample. 
Table 2 Remittance characteristics by region over the period 2004–2009. 
Table 4 Remittances and type of relationship. 
Table 5 Remittances and number of recipients. 
Table 6 Estimation results: amount of transfer (in Euro). 

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On the Effect of Mobile Phone on Migrant Remittances: A Closer Look at International Transfers
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June 2012

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Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Recent empirical studies based on surveys bring evidence that international remittances are more the result of familial intertemporal contracts than self-insurance motivations. Exploiting transaction-level remittance data carried out by 3,294 migrants between 2004 and 2009 in France from a mobile money transfer service to recipients located in Sub-Sahara Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Madagascar, we find using descriptive statistics and econometric tests that migrants send preferably more money to themselves than to family and non-family members. This result tends to support the idea that the mobile technology impacts migrant remittances and then the standard findings in the remittance literature as migrants seem to be more concerned by the accumulation of savings (self-insurance motivations) than about altruistic or household insurance motivations.

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The matrimonial web of migrants: The economics of profiling as a new form of ethnic business

August 2011

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This article investigates the matrimonial web of migrants by first focusing on the economy of ethnic profiling which underlies it. Such ethnicization of the ‘love’ encounter is closely dependant on a complex articulation of gender, nationality and mobility (migration), which is called here an ‘international distribution of gender’. Finally, the migrant matrimonial web suggests a new form of ‘ethnic business’, in which the source of value does not result from the activation of pre-existing networks but from the very creation of ethnic networks.




Figure 1. Saisonnalité des transferts en volume et en valeur sur l'ensemble de la période  
Figure 2. Saisonnalité des transferts en valeur par région  
Une analyse socio-économique des transferts d'argent des migrants par téléphone

February 2010

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Since the 2005 Barcelona agreement between telephone operators, the procedures whereby migrants transfer money have changed radically, and banks now propose telephone services. By identifying the type of relationship between migrants and addressees, as well as the amounts of the transactions, the authors show that these new procedures have increased people’s autonomy. Migrants have been relieved of a social weight and what used to be a kind of informal engagement. They can now clearly separate the transferral of money to their families, from the constitution of their own savings in their home country.


Le web matrimonial des migrants: L' économie du proflage au service d'une nouvelle forme de commerce ethnique

February 2010

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This article analyses the “migrants’ matrimonial Web” as an original form of ethnic business that equates “doing business” to “networking” (i.e. creating new networks rather than relying on existing ethnic ones). The authors show that it is based on an unusual profiling economy in which profiles (and therefore users) are ethnicized: “networking” = “ethnicizing”. As the matrimonial Web implies mobility and migration (with significant gender differences), “networking” also means “surfing, moving, and migrating”.


Citations (15)


... The European Union (EU) funded DiaporaLink Project was started to investigate how diaspora groups can be supported by a web portal and what strategies might facilitate transnational diaspora entrepreneurship (DiaporaLink Project, 2016). Using ICT to support people in the diaspora has been tried earlier in EU projects with a successful result (Diminescu et al., 2009;Borkert, Cingolani & Premazzi, 2009). Today many persons in the diaspora have good English skills, but when it comes to more technical descriptions most people have easier to understand if instructions are given in their native language (Pierce & Robisco, 2010). ...

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ePortfolios for Entrepreneurs / ePortafolios para Emprendadoras – Design and Development of an Online Distance Course
ICT supply and demand in immigrant and ethnic minority communities in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom
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... Broadly speaking, academic literature on e-diasporas is extensive and covers a wide range of aspects. However, overall, neither the side-effects of the "hyperconnected diasporas" are even slightly addressed (Diminescu 2012;Ponzanesi 2020;Oiarzabal 2012) nor any alternative based on ongoing emancipatory and descentralized literature on terms such as "network state" (Srinivasan 2022), "translocal geographies" , "the diaspora diaspora" (Brubaker 2005), "the society of algorithms" (Burrell and Fourcade 2021) Rennie et al. 2022). The emerging ecosystem of initiatives is just starting to understand the legal, computational, governance, diversity, treasure management, tax, regulatory, and other challenges of running decentralized blockchain-driven digital citizenship initiative to better structure ediasporas (Calzada 2018;Mejias and Couldry 2024;Nye 2008;Riordan 2019). ...

Introduction: Digital methods for the exploration, analysis and mapping of e-diasporas
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  • November 2012

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... reports by Codagnone and Kluzer (2011) and Kluzer, Haché, and Codagnone (2008) on digital inclusion, with data on icts and the integration of immigrants into several european countries and other exploratory work, appear to reinforce this hypothesis (Boso and ros, 2010; ofcom, 2008). Qualitative research has demonstrated the role of ict in the integration of immigrants and the promotion of cultural diversity in the new network societies (Hepp, Welling, and Aksen, 2009; maya et al., 2009; Diminescu, 2002 Diminescu, , 2004 Nedelcu, 2009). in the current context of the network society, the integration of immigrants seems to imply much more than a simple process of socioeconomic insertion, civic and political participation or the mere internalization of the social norms and cultural values of the destination country. The integration of the immigrant population into the network society means " being connected " , in other words, 1) being able to intelligently combine mobility, autonomy and communication , 2) knowing how to make strategic use of connectivity networks and 3) striking a balance between relations with the country of origin and the destination country (Diminescu, 2008). ...

Mobilités et Connexions. L'usage du téléphone portable par les migrants dans une situation précaire
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... Initiatives that link ICT-practice to real life needs and interests have proven to be most successful. These include for instance language learning and courses aimed at employment (Codagnone, Kluzer, and Haché 2009). However, the success of such computer courses are dependent on the courses being flexible, userfriendly and taking the needs of the women into considerations (Ktoridou and Eteokleous-Grigoriou 2011). ...

ICT Supply and Demand in Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Communities in France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom

... plusieurs années (Macilotti 2015 ; rapport ONU 2014), l'usage effectif du système mis en place est loin d'être efficace. En effet, dans le cadre de nos recherches, nous avons pu observer un phénomène qui montre les limites de ces politiques : chez les migrants -aussi bien les nouveaux arrivants que ceux qui sont installés en France depuis plusieurs années -la tendance est d'aller à la recherche d'une interaction avec un représentant institutionnel ou de la société civile plutôt qu'engager une interaction personne-machine (voir Kluzer & Haché 2009). Les extraits des interactions que nous avons analysés illustrent justement cette tendance, ainsi que les obstacles rencontrés dans la réalisation de procédures ou de recherche d'informations liées aux droits sociaux sur Internet (comme le raconte l'usager de l'extrait 1). ...

ICT for Integration, Social Inclusion and Economic Participation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities: Case Studies from France

... Digital research methods have opened new avenues for studying the importance of language as a marker of ethnic identity. This is mostly done either through digital ethnographies (for a review see Varis 2015; on the Italian diaspora see Marino 2015) or through text analysis techniques, including sentiment analysis and text mining, which are applied to social media data to identify linguistic markers of ethnic identity, exploring keywords, hashtags, and other linguistic features that are indicative of ethnicity (e.g., Medina 2014;Diminescu and Loveluck 2014;Kumar 2018). Our approach aligns with the latter rationale. ...

Traces of dispersion: Online media and diasporic identities
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  • March 2014

Crossings Journal of Migration and Culture

... Men are the prime users of the Internet and in a most pronounced way, in Middle Eastern dating and chat sites-the topic in which we are most interested in this paper. In fact, in a survey of subscribers to muslima.com, for example, Diminescu and Renault (2011) found that in Middle Eastern countries, virtually all the users were men (see Figure 1). This means that the few women who dare to sign into the new media will have a wide selection of potential mates and people to chat with, while men will have very few alternatives. ...

The matrimonial web of migrants: The economics of profiling as a new form of ethnic business
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  • August 2011

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... This study defines a co-location event as a call between two subscribers connected to the same cell tower. A co-location event can be seen as a call to coordinate a meeting in a nearby area, referred to as a "coordination knot", as hypothesized by [39,40]. Of course, two mobile phone users can call each other while sharing the same cell tower without meeting each other. ...

Tailing Untethered Mobile Users: Studying Urban Mobilities and Communication Practices

... Les pratiques communicationnelles des migrants, portées et accentuées par l'usage des TIC, forment de vastes corpus de données à explorer. Captées directement depuis des flux d'informations live ou récupérées après coup dans des systèmes de stockage, ces données peuvent aider à comprendre le fonctionnement de certains réseaux transnationaux, tels que des systèmes de transfert d'argent par téléphone portable (Bounie et al., 2010), ou encore servir à mesurer l'intégration des migrants dans les pays d'accueil. Ce sont également des vecteurs de compréhension des modalités de surveillance déployées par les institutions pour contrôler les étrangers (Amoore, 2006). ...

Une analyse socio-économique des transferts d'argent des migrants par téléphone

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