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.
Media + Migration Lab Fall 2025 Newsletter 2025–2026 Theme: Entanglement The Media + Migration Lab continues to expand the ways we think about migration — not as a single trajectory or discrete event, but as a complex web of relations, histories, and ongoing movements that link people, places, and ecologies across time. Migration is never …
Beyond the Border Headlines: Media Coverage of Nigerian and ECOWAS Migration Narratives Nigerian and West African media often reproduce global crisis-driven frames, neglecting everyday regional mobility and the human context of migration. People reading newspapers. Pixabay Migration has long been central to West Africa’s social and economic fabric, shaping livelihoods, families, …
Site-specific Installations by Maria Thereza Alves Seeds of Change: Marseille 1999-2000 Seeds of Change: Reposaari 2001 Seeds of Change: Liverpool 2004 Seeds of Change: Exeter and Topsham 2004 Seeds of Change: Dunkirk 2005 Seeds of Change: Bristol 2007 Seeds of Change: Antwerp 2009/2019 Seeds of Change: New York City 2017 Maria Thereza Alves is a …
An Asian Ghost Story is a film and installation piece by artist Bo Wang. It is a meditation on the spectral traces of Asia’s late-20th-century modernization, told through the unlikely medium of wigs and the global hair trade. Beginning with the 1965 U.S. embargo on “Asiatic hair”— later rebranded as “communist hair”— the film exposes …
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.
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.
