Mobile World Research Articles

The Politics of Refugee Resettlement in the Asia Pacific: Belonging and ICT-enabled Transnational Settlement

Abstract This conceptual article examines the interplay of forced displacement and resettlement across the Asia Pacific, situated against the backdrop of unprecedented global displacement, rapid uptake of information communication technologies, and strong border governance regimes. Emphasising the centrality of the politics of belonging, this article distinguishes between refugee resettlement, focused on protection, and the broader concept of refugee settlement as part of a larger project of belonging. Recognising that less than 1 per cent of refugees globally are able to access resettlement pathways every year, we present the implications of ICT-enabled transnational settlement, using New Zealand and Australia’s refugee resettlement programmes to anchor this analysis. By examining ongoing transnational connections, particularly through social media, this article illuminates how refugees can negotiate relationships with nearby and distant places. It outlines a spectrum of opportunities and challenges within resettlement and settlement contexts, transcending traditional territorial boundaries defined by the state and local jurisdictions. This article concludes by considering durable and enduring solutions to forward the possibilities of ICT-enabled transnational settlement as it influences the articulation of safety and belonging in an increasingly interconnected yet unevenly mobile world.

자계 이방성 축 방향에 따른 안테나 공진 주파수 특성

The main theme of the 2024 Mobile World Congress (MWC), held annually in Barcelona, Spain, is ‘5G and Beyond.’ Extensive research and activity focus on 6G (IMT-2030) technology, which is expected to become the core infrastructure of the mobile industry by 2030, representing the future of wireless communications. This necessitates the support of more wireless frequency bands for terminals to be compatible with the upcoming Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G technologies. The antenna mounting space for B5G wireless communication, with various form factors for hardware, such as smartphones, smartwatches, and smart rings, is limited, as these devices become increasingly slimmer and lighter. Several methods have been studied to reduce antenna size while maintaining performance in a limited space. Representative examples include integrated-structure, metamaterial, and magnetodielectric antennas. In this study, it is analyzed for the effect of the resonance frequency characteristics of antennas based on the arrangement direction of the anisotropic material in the limited antenna mounting space of communication terminals. Aiming to reduce antenna size in the B5G era, it is proposed for the necessity of optimal design that focuses on the axial direction of the magneto-dielectric materials when designing antennas using anisotropic materials for antenna miniaturization.

Linguistic landscaping in Kathmandu’s Thamel ‘Chinatown’: language as commodity in the construction of a cosmopolitan transnational space

ABSTRACT This study explores the linguistic landscape of a new unofficial 'Chinatown' in Kathmandu, Nepal. Located in the tourist hub Thamel, this Chinatown came into being recently because of globalisation and China's outbound tourism boom. Using authentic photographic data, this study examines how the use of Chinese and various semiotic elements (e.g. colour) contributes to the making of a commodified ethnic enclave and space of consumption, where a foreign culture is inscribed and embedded in the existing built environment. Unlike the traditional old-world Chinatowns, simplified Chinese characters are omnipresent in this Chinatown and many Chinese-run business names are highly up-to-date and reflect the latest trends in their home country. The exclusive use of monolingual Chinese is also commonplace. Interestingly, awkwardly hand-copied Chinese and Google translated Chinese are used as part of local businesses' marketing repertoire in what can be called 'linguistic jugaad'. Additionally, some local businesses resort to creative, affective and playful language to attract and engage with Chinese tourists. Contributing to research on ethnic enclaves and urban sociolinguistics, this study highlights language as commodity in transforming/constructing a cosmopolitan transnational space in our globalised and mobile world, illustrating how South-South population flows can leave material traces in a place's linguistic ecology.

Revisiting “Bounded Spaces in the Mobile World”: A Contextualized Rejoinder

AbstractThis contribution aims firstly to contextualize the author's article Bounded spaces in the mobile world: Deconstructing “regional identity” and, secondly, to give a response to four invited comments on that article published on this forum. This paper is organized as follows. After the introduction, the geographical and conceptual contextualization of the TESG article and the scientific links behind the article will be discussed. These are followed by a response to four comments.

History teaching for a mobile world

The global population is highly mobile, and the children of migrants may have a complex set of shifting loyalties. Researchers in the TranCit project are investigating how history is taught in four different countries, looking at how teaching can be made more inclusive to reflect the nature of today’s globalised world, as Professor Ellen Vea Rosnes explains.

Understanding Economic Integration in Immigrant and Refugee Populations: A Scoping Review of Concepts and Metrics in the United States

In an increasingly mobile world, the integration of immigrants and displaced individuals is an important factor in creating cohesive and inclusive societies. Integration has different dimensions; this scoping review examines the conceptualization and measurement of economic integration among immigrants and refugees in the United States. Quantitative peer-reviewed journal papers measuring or conceptualizing the economic integration of first-generation documented adult immigrants or refugees in the United States, as well as relevant conceptual or theory papers on this topic, were included in the review. The search strategy included an online search of the Web of Science Core Collection, PsycINFO, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), and EconLit. Additional search strategies included scanning the reference lists of studies identified as relevant in the initial database search. An analysis of 72 studies included in the review using a data extraction table reveals seven key domains of economic integration: income and economic security, employment and occupational categories, assets and use of financial services, neighborhood and housing, health, education, and use of public assistance. Income and economic security emerged as the most common indicators of integration in the reviewed studies. Notably, less than half of the reviewed publications had a multidimensional approach to defining or measuring economic integration, and the majority of studies were focused on immigrants, with a smaller proportion dedicated to refugees. This review emphasizes the need for comprehensive frameworks in assessing economic integration among immigrants and refugees, reflecting the multifaceted nature of their economic integration experiences.

Lion’s Share for Artificial Intelligence at Mobile World Congress [Mobile Radio

Lion’s Share for Artificial Intelligence at Mobile World Congress [Mobile Radio

(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance

The paper contributes to the theme of the special issue by making auto/biography the focal point of analysis and theorising its potential to be mobile or immobile. The theoretical developments of the paper are grounded in a mobilisation of life-without-children auto/biographical non-fiction across the last 10–15 years, in which those who do not have children, whatever the reason, have opened-up about their stories and found ways to share them with one another. The paper explicates an original concept immobile autobiography defined as: ‘life narratives that are invisible and side-lined, essentialized or not told in first person, and whose circulation both within (intra) and between (inter) generations is structurally limited’; and its converse mobile autobiography. (Im)mobile auto/biographies include, but cannot be reduced to, digital and physical mobilities. The potential of the concept lies in its ability to consider how lives, and the stories told about them, evolve, circulate and perform transformation, as they intersect with, transgress and re-shape changing cultural climates of a mobile world.

Revenge of criminals, Mask, Challenge to women's identity

The presented research paper is based on the changing nature of the cases registered in the Juvenile Justice Board, Farrukhabad from 2005 to 2023. The title of the research paper has been named based on the trend of the data obtained in the study, in which the objective of the research paper is to understand the changing trend of criminals. And along with the study of the challenges of women's identity, an attempt has been made to assess both the positive and negative aspects of the impact of women's education and the mobile world on crime.

Theorising a connectivity mindset in doctoral candidates – using critical mobilities as a point of departure

ABSTRACT This conceptual paper considers doctoral candidate mindset and effective doctoral supervision. I explore mindset through a Critical Mobilities lens to posit two mindsets that candidates inhabit on their doctoral journey: transit and connectivity (Kesselring, (2006). Pioneering mobilities: New patterns of movement and motility in a mobile world. Environment & Planning A, 38(2), 269–279. https://doi.org/10.1068/a37279). I suggest management of doctoral research in the UK and internationally predisposes doctoral candidates and their supervisors to a ‘transit mindset’ which focuses on completion. On the other hand, a ‘connectivity mindset’ of exploration better enables critical and creative thinking. While both mindsets are necessary for the production of a high-quality thesis, a connectivity mindset can be more uncomfortable for both supervisors and doctoral candidates in the context of the neoliberal performance management culture. With the aim of supporting better doctoral research and doctoral experience, the paper theorises three manifestations of connectivity mindset that supervisors may encounter. These are: ‘rhizomic thinking’ which the supervisory team can identify and support in their supervisee; the ‘nomadic space’ which is created between supervisor and supervisee when they share a connectivity mindset; and a ‘third space’ that is entered into by supervisors and supervisees, when a shared connectivity mindset incorporates personal experiences, feelings and needs. The paper concludes with six areas of focus for development of supervisory practice.

Locked out? Navigating the geographies of precarity on Britain's waterways

AbstractMotivations for living on the UK's waterways range from lifestyle to financial, but increasing numbers have been pushed aboard in response to current, and longstanding, cost‐of‐living and housing crises. However, while more affordable than living on land, our qualitative investigation reveals a diversity of practices and experiences of marginalisation on the waterways, drawing out the impacts of temporal and spatial fluidity to inform our understanding of precarity in a mobile world. The waterways are a contested and politicised space with diverse actors seeking to delineate legitimate practices and users. Liveaboard boaters practice residential subjectivities in what others designate as leisure spaces. Resistance to such powerful claims to the waterways is not necessarily chosen or active and yet has become implicit to boaters' everyday practices. The mobility and liminality offered by boat living, experienced by some as a chosen freedom and others as a restrictive imposition, presents opportunities for resistance to powerful interests but also social marginalisation and stigmatisation. Through a focus on moorings, we highlight the legal and spatial grey areas regularly inhabited by all boaters. In seemingly secure marinas, we expose a hidden world of housing precarity with residential boaters' living in the shadows of these leisure‐designed spaces, resulting in no stability, security or statutory rights. For boaters out on the waterways, precarity continued, albeit with different manifestations. Powerful local actors mobilise narratives that disembed boaters from the waterways through the absence and poor maintenance of essential facilities alongside the loss of legal, safe mooring sites. Precarity emerges as not something restricted to ‘vulnerable groups’ but an ever present ontological condition. As such it is critical to understand how individuals and communities are responding to their implicit vulnerability, and the opportunities and challenges that mobility offers to the development and practice of this agency.

THE EFFECT OF THE USE OF GAMIFICATION STRATEGY IN MOBILE HEALTH APPLICATIONS ON CUSTOMER LOYALTY

The introduction of mobile technologies’s included users in the mobile world with new features. The progress of mobile marketing has affected the development of the mobile application market. Mobile applications, which developed in parallel with the development of mobile marketing, helped the development of new applications in the health sector. Developing mobile technologies’re becoming widespread in the health sector. With the mobile health applications developed, different opportunities can be offered to patients or users who want a healthier lifestyle, and the applications can have the power to increase the quality of life of people. One of the rising values in mobile health applications’s gamification. With gamification, health services can be offered to the user in a mobile environment. It aims to monitor their health by rewarding its users because it’s motivational on the basis of gamification. The gaming experience leads to the formation of loyalty towards the mobile application with the value created by the user by connecting to the mobile application. In this research, the effect of game experiences on customer loyalty as a result of gamified content in mobile health applications was investigated. As a result of the research, it’s been shown that the game experience dimensions in mobile health applications’ve a positive effect on customer loyalty and suggested that healthcare companies or application developers can apply gamification strategies in their mobile applications to increase the loyalty of their customers.

Episode 33: Our mobile world: Enabling intelligent transport systems

Episode 33: Our mobile world: Enabling intelligent transport systems

Complex intersections of language and culture: the importance of an ethnographic lens for research within transnational communities

ABSTRACT A growing body of work exploring transnational interaction has brought to light the importance of awareness of multilingualism in research contexts, yet little consideration has been given to researchers working in a later learned language (LX) or the process of investigating linguistically diverse communities. This research takes place within a multilingual social space, a transnational Spanish language group in London, against the backdrop of a globalized and mobile world. The work explores the complexities of conducting research in a multilingual, international, and transient context where sharing all language varieties and/or cultures with participants may not be practical, possible, or even preferable. The data, collected by myself (a participant-researcher), includes recordings of informal social conversations, ethnographic observations, and interviews with key participants. Their analysis highlights linguistic adaptation to facilitate transnational understanding, demonstrates the value of interviews in a common LX, and considers how language ideologies and norms affect transcription of multiple language varieties. The paper argues that utilizing an ethnographic lens, particularly when working in an LX, allows for a deeper understanding of localized multilingual interaction through closeness to the participants and advocates a slow, detailed approach to data analysis.

Episode 29: Our mobile world: How mobile phones are helping save the planet

Episode 29: Our mobile world: How mobile phones are helping save the planet

Expert perspectives on how educational technology may support autonomous learning for remote out-of-school children in low-income contexts

Across Sub-Saharan African, 98 million children are illiterate and innumerate and do not attend school. Educational technologies (EdTech) that promote autonomous learning may ameliorate this learning poverty. Yet, little is known if or how these technologies can be implemented effectively within communities to support out-of-school children to learn basic literacy and numeracy skills. To address this knowledge gap, we explored expert perspectives of the perceived impact and challenges of implementing a unique large-scale EdTech learning competition conducted by the XPRIZE Foundation in 172 remote villages in Tanzania with 2500 out-of-school children. A qualitative expert elicitation was conducted with 14 key informants of the competition, using semi-structured interviews administered online over a 7-month period. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Four key themes were generated: ‘Technology as a novel concept’, ‘Children don't learn in a vacuum’, ‘Respecting the cultural context’ and ‘Accessibility problems in a mobile world’. Results demonstrated considerable community support throughout the competition, leading us to question the extent to which children can learn autonomously with EdTech alone. This study revealed communities are critical partners for the successful deployment of EdTech directly to communities in low-income settings, which has implications for organisations addressing the global learning crisis.

Episode 28: Our mobile world: Healthcare on the go

Episode 28: Our mobile world: Healthcare on the go

Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging

In this article I revisit debates about the socio-cultural importance of place and permanence in a hypermobile world order. I zoom in on everyday practices in a small municipality located in the Austrian Nock mountains region which is at once characterized by a history of cross-border mobilities and pronounced support for nativist ideas and parties. I shed light on the experiences and perspectives of village inhabitants who detest liberal ideals about cosmopolitan forms of belonging, instead insisting on tropes of indigeneity and place attachment (Heimatverbundenheit). I argue that rather than writing such sentiments off as backward, traditionalist ways of relating to the world, social scientists need to pay attention to them. They make visible a deepening chasm between scholarly imaginaries about mobile, cosmopolitan identities and people’s lived experiences in an increasingly fragmented global political arena. Taking the lived antagonisms of a hypermobile world order seriously, I aim critically to examine ideas of movement, place and cosmopolitanism pervading modern thought.

Implications for Health Management Through an Analysis of Changes in Life Patterns of Generation Z College Students Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study.

This study examines the radical changes in the everyday life patterns of Gen Z college students and their health-related perceptions in the online era. Twelve Korean college students in their 20s attending online classes were included in this study. Online video interviews were conducted between September 2021 and January 2022, and content analysis was performed on the one-on-one interview transcripts. Four main categories and ten subcategories were derived from the data analysis: (1) living in a mobile world, (2) new lifestyle transcending time and space and adaptation to the change, (3) expansion of the meaning of health, and (4) interest in health and health management. Gen Z college students have quickly adapted to the convenience of a non-face-to-face lifestyle, and their perceptions about health and methods of health management have also changed accordingly. Correspondingly, for the new generation of university students, providing customized health care that reflects the lifestyle of using mobile devices and includes self-management areas is necessary.

Radical Republican Citizenship for a Mobile World

Migrants invariably and unavoidably experience domination under the nation-state centered concepts, categories, and institutions that structure our political thinking. In response, we need to build new forms of citizenship, including local, regional, transnational, and supranational forms of belonging, accompanied by meaningful, democratic, political power. In this paper, I examine historical and present-day alternative models of political organization as possible viable alternatives to state-centric liberal democracy. It begins the task of assessing these models using radical republican theory that grounds non-domination in the active and equal participation of people subject to power.I have three broad aims. First, we need to break down the native-migrant dichotomy to highlight commonalities and search for solidarities among migrants and other marginalized and oppressed groups, including indigenous groups. Second, I seek to awaken the political imagination. Many people do not believe there are viable alternatives to liberal democracy centered around the nation-state. In response, we should draw attention to the ways in which the nation-state’s hegemony is fragile and fragmented and the ways in which sovereignty is complex and contested. Most importantly, we need to consider alternative models for inspiration. Third, we need tools for assessing the desirability of alternatives and for building new forms of citizenship.In what follows, first I explain why the dominant, nation-state centered model of political organization is unable to deliver justice in today’s world, or, indeed, address the collective dangers that humanity faces. I next provide a sketch of a radical republican vision that provides normative guidance our thinking about alternative institutions. I end by using this radical republic vision to reflect on possibilities to guide efforts to remake the world.