Koen Leurs awarded fellowship at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study

Dr. Koen Leurs has been selected for a stay at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) in Amsterdam. With this fellowship, starting September 2020 Koen will spend a period of 10 months conducting research for his next monograph titled “Digital Migration”.

Book Digital Migration

Migration and digitization are fundamental drivers of economic, cultural, societal, and political transformation. In the monograph ‘Digital Migration’, under contract with Sage publishing, Leurs will offer a deeper understanding of how these two processes are interrelated.

Digital migration studies

With digital migration studies he refers to an interdisciplinary research area emerging at the intersections of media, migration and technology studies as well as feminist and postcolonial theory. Digital migration addresses ontological implications of the growing digitization and datafication of human mobilities within countries and across borders. It is also concerned with epistemological, methodological and ethical questions emerging from digitally studying these mobilities.

Research question

In particular, he will seek to explore how digital migration includes some and excludes other mobile subjects; how different scholarly disciplines address migration and the digital and what methodological concerns and ethical questions emerge when studying mobility through the digital.

About NIAS-KNAW 

Dr. Koen Leurs will become part of a select community of about sixty scholars, artists and writers. NIAS - one of the institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) –provides a physical and intellectual space for advanced research in the humanities and social sciences that is driven by curiosity and cross-discipline collaboration. It offers temporary fellowships to international and Dutch scholars. NIAS is located in Amsterdam.