Phoning Home: Migrant Youths’ Digital Mediations of Embodied Mobility

This collection of images explores how migrant youth digitally mediate the embodied experience of transnational mobility. Emerging from multisited and multimodal ethnographic fieldwork with Ghanaian-background youth who grow up between Ghana and Germany, these multiply mediated images depict the first “home” visit to Ghana of a young woman, Keziah (age 20), after four years of living in Germany. The collection explores the smartphone as an agentive tool with which migrant youth create and express a transnational and multiple sense of home, a simultaneous belonging to here and there, through their physical, virtual, and affective movements between the multiple nodes of their globally networked lives.