Migration Mapping is a living digital archive, resource guide, and research hub on media and migration. It seeks to identify, describe, and track the various mediated forms through which we make sense of migration as human practice.

Migration Mapping is the foundational project of the Media+Migration Lab (M2Lab), an experimental platform for exploring and creating the prismatic spaces, hues, and textures of media and migration. The M2Lab is housed in the School of Media Studies at The New School, New York.

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Fall 2024 Newsletter
2024-2025 Theme: Ecology The Media + Migration Lab constantly works to refine our social and political understanding of migration, which involves maintaining unwavering attention to …
Fiction Film: Sleep Dealer (2008)
Alex Rivera provides a poignant commentary on labor, ecology, racial capitalism, and imperial infrastructure in his futuristic, science fiction film Sleep Dealer. The film is …

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Featured Datasets

The Datasets serve as the archive of the site: migration-related content is here classified according to type of media they relate to or represent. These serve as the ‘raw data’ on which we draw to arrive at key concepts constituting our mental maps about the migrant/emigrant/immigrant.

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Featured Concepts

The Concepts you see below are keywords that give meaning to the content we have collected: themes that recur in discussions of migration. Click each Concept below for more details.

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alien · border · diaspora · exile · home · labor · memory · refugee