"Presents the Humanizing Deportation digital storytelling project and draws from the project's public archive of audiovisual testimonial migrant narratives to draw out both the lived consequences of contemporary migrant control regimes in the US and Mexico and the potentially instructive knowledge shared by migrant storytellers"--
The digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites migrants to present their own stories in the worlds 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 projects coordinator, Robert Irwin, and other team members introduce the projects 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.
A collection of digital stories from the Humanizing Deportation project that reveals a uniquely expert point of view of Mexican and Central American migrant experiences: those of the migrants themselves.
Recenzijos
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)
Acknowledgments
Sometimes (Sonia GuiŃansaca)
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 VĮzquez, and Yairamaren
RomĮn 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: Deportations Effects on the
Soul (MarĶa JosÉ GutiÉrrez)
Chapter
7. Infrapolitics and Deportation: Everyday Resistance from Digital
Storytelling (Ana Luisa Calvillo VĮzquez)
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
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.
