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.
Founded by artists Annette Weisser and Mitchell Cope. The Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop reimagines the invasive tree of heaven—once imported from China with migrant workers and botanists—as both material and metaphor for resilience in post-industrial Detroit. Known for thriving in contaminated soil, drought, and abandonment, the tree mirrors the survival and ingenuity of Detroit’s …
Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World foregrounds the theme of entanglement, using the matsutake mushroom to reveal how ecological, economic, and social worlds are knotted together in precarious ways. Emerging from forests disrupted by industrial logging, matsutake becomes a medium through which displaced human communities, nonhuman species, and global markets intersect. …
Jessica J. Lee’s Dispersals is a meditation on migration, memory, and ecology that foregrounds the entanglement of human and more-than-human forms of dispersal. Moving between her family’s history of displacement across Taiwan, Canada, and the UK, and the drifting pathways of seeds, spores, and plants, Lee weaves together an intimate memoir with natural history to …
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 …
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.
