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The Waiting Room: Rethinking Latency After Covid-19
September 25, 2020By Neta Alexander Neta Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media at Colgate University, New York. Her first book, Failure (Polity, 2020; co-authored… Read more
Media’s Border Logics: Reflecting on Platforms to the World Symposium
September 25, 2020By Juan Llamas-Rodriguez Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is assistant professor of critical media studies in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of… Read more
Article: Emilie Cheyroux, Immigrant consumption and cultural visibility in documentary films by and about Latinos (2018)
November 11, 2019Abstract: “This article analyzes two short documentaries showed at Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (Austin, Texas) and the way they discuss the symbolic meaning as well… Read more
From Penal to “Civil”: A Legacy of Private Prison Policy in a Landscape of Migrant Detention
November 11, 2019Sarah Lopez American Quarterly Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 71, Number 1, March 2019 pp. 105-134 10.1353/aq.2019.0005 Abstract: Texas has more migrant detention centers and… Read more
Book: Borderwall As Architecture (2017) by Ronald Rael
November 11, 2019Ronald Rael, Borderwall As Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017) From the Publisher: “Through a series of… Read more
List of academic conferences on migration (2016-2017)
December 3, 20172016–17 “MIGRATION AND COMMUNICATION FLOWS: RETHINKING BORDERS, CONFLICT AND IDENTITY THROUGH THE DIGITAL” November 2-3 2017 – Bilbao, Spain “We are faced with a crisis… Read more
List of academic conferences on migration (2013-2015)
December 3, 20162015 “MIGRATION, MEDIA AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE,” 25-26 NOVEMBER 2015, UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY, BARCELONA “TRANSIENT MIGRATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC: IDENTITIES, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MEDIA,” 12 NOVEMBER… Read more
List of academic articles on migration (1981 to 2016)
December 3, 20162011-2016 Scott Blinder and William L. Allen. “Constructing Immigrants: Portrayals of Migrant Groups in British National Newspapers, 2010–2012.” International Migration Review. Spring 2016. Shepard, Mark. “Minor Urbanism: Everyday Entanglements… Read more
List of academic books on migration (1890s to 2012)
December 3, 20162011-12 CELIK, IPEK A. IN PERMANENT CRISIS: ETHNICITY IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN MEDIA AND CINEMA. ANN ARBOR: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS, 2015. MARTIN, Susan. A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS.… Read more
Article: George Lipsitz, The Meaning of Memory (1986)
November 3, 2016American Studies scholar George Lipsitz’s article The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs (1986) examines how the “historical specificity… Read more
Publication: Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)
November 3, 2016How the Other Half Lives (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis. The publication documented the poor living conditions in New York… Read more
Article: Edward Said, Between Worlds (1998)
November 3, 2016Edward Said makes sense of his life. “The day in early September 1951 when my mother and father deposited me at the gates of that… Read more
Coriolis Effect: Migration & Memory
September 23, 2016Coriolis Effect extends its original curatorial intention of tracing cultural and historical exchanges in the Indian Ocean Worlds, and invites speculations on ideas of movement,… Read more
The value of immigrants to the UK economy: Sophie Barrett-Brown
February 1, 2016Corporate Governance Report interviews international migration expert Sophie Barrett-Brown on the value of immigrants to UK corporations. Immigrants to the UK have received a rush… Read more
How Capitalism Expels Refugees: Saskia Sassen
February 1, 2016Abby Martin interviews Professor Saskia Sassen about the undiscussed facts behind the 60 million refugees worldwide. Saskia Sassen is a sociologist noted for her analyses… Read more
Latino Immigration into US: Leo Chavez
December 8, 2015Leo Chavez, UCI professor of anthropology and Chicano/Latino studies, has been researching immigration for more than 25 years. He has written a book on the… Read more
Enlightenment in Diasporisation: Zygmunt Bauman
December 8, 2015THE PAST OF CENTRAL EUROPE IS THE FUTURE OF EUROPE, AN INTERVIEW WITH ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Excerpt: Every process has its discontents, and diasporization is… Read more
Crossroads in Iranian Cinema: Professor Hamid Naficy
December 8, 2015Hamid Naficy of Northwestern University is a leading authority of Iranian cinema His most recent four-volume series, A Social History of Iranian Cinema. Covers the… Read more
The passing of Stuart Hall
February 10, 2014For many across the globe, Stuart Hall’s name is synonymous with Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that he helped establish. An immigrant from… Read more