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 Spring 2026 Newsletter IN FOCUS: Invasive Kin: Rooting With Our Plant Relatives This season, the Media + Migration Lab turns its attention to the ground beneath our feet — to the plants that have crossed oceans, taken root in cracked pavements and forgotten lots, and persisted despite being labeled threats. Our …
"Golden Snail Opera” Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 31 No. 4 (2016) Tsai, Carbonell, Chevrier, and Tsing's contribution to Cultural Anthropology's experimental "Sound + Vision" section performs what it argues: that multispecies entanglement requires multispecies form. The golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata) was imported to Taiwan from Argentina in 1979 for an imagined escargot industry, declared invasive …
Over three weeks in late summer 2023, the Franco-American collective Le Ratoire canoed the length of the Hudson River — the Mahicannittuk — from Troy to New York City, filming on 16mm and developing each night's footage using invasive plants foraged along the banks: mugwort, Japanese knotweed, wood ash from bonfire, and the river's own …
Karel Doing's article proposes the phytogram — an image made by combining the internal chemistry of plants directly with photographic emulsion — as both a technical practice and a theoretical provocation. Drawing on structural/materialist film theory, biosemiotics, and perspectivism, Doing argues that conventional cinema is fundamentally a human-centred apparatus: its lens, frame ratio, and projection …
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.
