Contribute to Migration Mapping

Migration Mapping is the foundational project of the Media+Migration Lab (M2Lab). It is a living digital archive for ongoing media investigations into migration. It seeks to host critical analyses of ephemeral news reports, maps, graphs, social media exchanges, art, photography, films, video games, and digital stories.

Is there an artwork, book, website, film, news item, or piece of media about migration you’d like to write about? Contribute to our Datasets by proposing a media analysis article for Migration Mapping.

Accepted contributions will be provided editorial assistance from the M2Lab team, with the final text article published on the Migration Mapping website and sorted into our Datasets according to its media formats and its related Concepts. Articles are publicized over The New School’s internal channels, alongside the M2Lab’s mailing list, social media channels, and seasonal Newsletter.

This might encompass text contributions that explore migration through:
– Close readings of specific pieces of media relating to migration
– Film or videogame analyses
– Book reviews
– Exhibition walkthroughs, visual analysis of artworks
– Creative writing
– Photo essays
– Interviews with artists, academics, or activists
– Critical analyses of media coverage of a migration-related topic
– Conference or event summaries

Some examples of past articles include:
– A conversation with artist Jesse Chun conducted by Sumita S. Chakravarty
– Immigrant Art: A New Perspective on the U.S. Melting Pot by Guillermina Zabala
– Media’s Border Logics: Reflecting on Platforms to the World Symposium by Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
– Documentary Review: Shenandoah (2012) by Sumita S. Chakravarty
– Videogame analysis: Papers, Please (2013) by Johann Yamin

Submission deadline: Proposals may be submitted year-round, and are usually published within one month of acceptance.

Word limit: Articles may be around 800 to 1,500 words (excluding notes or bibliography).

To submit

Please contact Sumita Chakravarty, sending over a short proposal for the article with your CV and bio.

Sumita Chakravarty
Professor Emerita of Media Studies
The New School, New York
Email: chakravs@newschool.edu

Deliverables: After acceptance, the final text submission should be in a Word document. Images, videos, or other media to be included in the text should be provided as separate files (JPG or PNG files for images, YouTube or Vimeo links for videos). Please indicate in your text document where each image/video should be positioned, and provide image captions with credits.

If instead, you have an idea for an artistic or critical multimedia project spanning text, video, sound, images, and other forms of digital media exploring migration, please see the “Become a Contributor” section on the Media+Migration Lab’s About page.