Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge: Building a Community Archive
Robert Irwin, "Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge: Building a Community Archive "
English | ISBN: 1477326235 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1477326235 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites migrants to present their own stories in the world’s largest and most diverse archive of its kind. Since 2017, more than 300 community storytellers have created their own audiovisual testimonial narratives, sharing their personal experiences of migration and repatriation. With Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge, the project’s coordinator, Robert Irwin, and other team members introduce the project’s innovative participatory methodology, drawing out key issues regarding the human consequences of contemporary migration control regimes, as well as insights from migrants whose world-making endeavors may challenge what we think we know about migration.
In recent decades, migrants in North America have been treated with unprecedented harshness. Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge
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