Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 obstac
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Sometimes (Sonia Guiñansaca)
- 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 Vázquez, and Yairamaren Román 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 (María José Gutiérrez)
- Chapter 7. Infrapolitics and Deportation: Everyday Resistance from Digital Storytelling (Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez)
- 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
