Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge
Building a Community Archive
Published on 8. November 2022
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-4773-2622-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 outlines this recent history, revealing stories both of grave injustice and of seemingly unsurmountable obstacles overcome. As Irwin writes, "The greatest source of expertise on the human consequences of contemporary migration control are the migrants who have experienced them," and their voices in this searing collection jump off the page and into our hearts and minds.
In recent decades, migrants in North America have been treated with unprecedented harshness. Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge outlines this recent history, revealing stories both of grave injustice and of seemingly unsurmountable obstacles overcome. As Irwin writes, "The greatest source of expertise on the human consequences of contemporary migration control are the migrants who have experienced them," and their voices in this searing collection jump off the page and into our hearts and minds.
Reviews / Votes
Rather than treat the archive as a static object, Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge offers a crucial portrait of an archive as a fluid, ever-changing constellation. (E3W: Ethnic and Third World Literatures)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Austin, TX
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
15 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4773-2622-0 (9781477326220)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Robert McKee Irwin is a professor of Spanish at UC Davis. He is the author of Mexican Masculinities and Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints: Cultural Icons of Mexico's Northwest Borderlands, and he is the coordinator of the Humanizing Deportation digital storytelling project.
Content
Acknowledgments
Sometimes (Sonia GuiNansaca)
Part I. Problems, Approaches, Methods
Chapter 1. The Humanizing Deportation Project: Building a Community Archive of Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge (Robert McKee Irwin)
Chapter 2. Approaches and Methods: Migrant Epistemologies through Digital Storytelling (Robert McKee Irwin, Ana Luisa Calvillo VAzquez, and Yairamaren RomAn Maldonado)
Part II. Issues
Chapter 3. Motherhood, Spaces, and Care in the Digital Narratives of Humanizing Deportation (Maricruz Castro Ricalde)
Chapter 4. Deported Childhood Arrivals "from the Famous Estados Unidos" DREAMing in Tijuana (Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana)
Chapter 5. Deportation and Military Discipline on the Last Battlefield of Tijuana (Kyle Proehl and Guillermo Alonso Meneses)
Part III. Migrant Epistemologies
Chapter 6. Family Unity and Practices of Care: Deportation's Effects on the Soul (MarIa JosE GutiErrez)
Chapter 7. Infrapolitics and Deportation: Everyday Resistance from Digital Storytelling (Ana Luisa Calvillo VAzquez)
Chapter 8. Beyond Social Death: New Migrant Ontologies (Brooke Kipling)
Chapter 9. The Migrant Knowledge of a Caravanero (Robert McKee Irwin)
Epilogue: Reclaiming Our Voices, Stories, and Knowledge (Nancy Landa)
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index
Sometimes (Sonia GuiNansaca)
Part I. Problems, Approaches, Methods
Chapter 1. The Humanizing Deportation Project: Building a Community Archive of Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge (Robert McKee Irwin)
Chapter 2. Approaches and Methods: Migrant Epistemologies through Digital Storytelling (Robert McKee Irwin, Ana Luisa Calvillo VAzquez, and Yairamaren RomAn Maldonado)
Part II. Issues
Chapter 3. Motherhood, Spaces, and Care in the Digital Narratives of Humanizing Deportation (Maricruz Castro Ricalde)
Chapter 4. Deported Childhood Arrivals "from the Famous Estados Unidos" DREAMing in Tijuana (Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana)
Chapter 5. Deportation and Military Discipline on the Last Battlefield of Tijuana (Kyle Proehl and Guillermo Alonso Meneses)
Part III. Migrant Epistemologies
Chapter 6. Family Unity and Practices of Care: Deportation's Effects on the Soul (MarIa JosE GutiErrez)
Chapter 7. Infrapolitics and Deportation: Everyday Resistance from Digital Storytelling (Ana Luisa Calvillo VAzquez)
Chapter 8. Beyond Social Death: New Migrant Ontologies (Brooke Kipling)
Chapter 9. The Migrant Knowledge of a Caravanero (Robert McKee Irwin)
Epilogue: Reclaiming Our Voices, Stories, and Knowledge (Nancy Landa)
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
Index