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“Life would have been harder, harder and more in chaos, if there wasn’t internet”: Digital Inclusion among Newly Arrived Refugees in Australia during the Covid-19 Pandemic

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  • Baganz, Emilie
  • McMahon, Tadgh
  • Khorana, Sukhmani
  • Magee, Liam
  • Culos, Ingrid

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Globally we are living through a continuing transition into the ‘information age’, where information and communication technology has transformed almost every aspect of people’s lives. The COVID-19 pandemic arguably accelerated this change. For refugees, as with other people, digital inclusion is arguably critical to social inclusion. This article seeks to better understand the digital inclusion of refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic, using data from two phases of research conducted in 2020 and 2021 with refugees who had recently resettled in Australia. Digital inclusion was mapped against three domains – access, affordability, and literacy – used in the annual Australian Digital Inclusion Index. Our research makes three contributions: it examines levels of digital inclusion among recently arrived refugees; it explores the relation of these levels to social links and bonds; and discusses differences within the sample according to gender, age, language group and type of digital inclusion.

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  • Baganz, Emilie & McMahon, Tadgh & Khorana, Sukhmani & Magee, Liam & Culos, Ingrid, 2023. "“Life would have been harder, harder and more in chaos, if there wasn’t internet”: Digital Inclusion among Newly Arrived Refugees in Australia during the Covid-19 Pandemic," SocArXiv nqu8c, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:nqu8c
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/nqu8c
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    1. Caitlin G. Bletscher, 2020. "Communication Technology and Social Integration: Access and Use of Communication Technologies Among Floridian Resettled Refugees," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 21(2), pages 431-451, June.
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