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Title Migrant feelings, migrant knowledge : building a community archive / edited by Robert McKee Irwin
Edition 1st ed
Published Middletown : University of Texas Press, 2022
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Series Border Hispanisms
Border Hispanisms.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Sometimes -- Part I. Problems, Approaches, Methods -- Chapter 1. The Humanizing Deportation Project: Building a Community Archive of Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge -- Chapter 2. Approaches and Methods: Migrant Epistemologies through Digital Storytelling -- Part II. Issues -- Chapter 3. Motherhood, Spaces, and Care in the Digital Narratives of Humanizing Deportation -- Chapter 4. Deported Childhood Arrivals "from the Famous Estados Unidos" DREAMing in Tijuana -- Chapter 5. Deportation and Military Discipline on the Last Battlefield of Tijuana -- Part III. Migrant Epistemologies -- Chapter 6. Family Unity and Practices of Care: Deportation's Effects on the Soul -- Chapter 7. Infrapolitics and Deportation: Everyday Resistance from Digital Storytelling -- Chapter 8. Beyond Social Death: New Migrant Ontologies -- Chapter 9. The Migrant Knowledge of a Caravanero -- Epilogue. Reclaiming Our Voices, Stories, and Knowledge -- Works Cited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary 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
Notes Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed on March 20, 2023)
Subject Border crossing -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Archival resources
Border security -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Archival resources
Deportation -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Archival resources
Deportees -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Biography -- Archives
Digital storytelling -- Archival resources
Immigrants -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Biography -- Archives
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Form Electronic book
Author Irwin, Robert, editor
ISBN 1477326243
9781477326244