Phoning Home

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.