Spring 2024 Newsletter: Concepts Relaunched

New Introductory Essays for Concepts

This Spring, we launched a series of 17 short essays by Prof Sumita S. Chakravarty and Sinha Memorial Research Fellow Johann Yamin, each introducing a keyword on our new “Concepts” page on the Migration Mapping project. This is part of the Migration Mapping project’s broader aims to arrive at key concepts constituting our mental maps about the migrant/emigrant/immigrant.

With a greater emphasis on the impact of technology on migration, each essay provides an overview of the term alongside further readings, viewings, and examples from our media datasets.

Click on one now to browse through the materials we’ve collected!

New Concept Essays

Data
Representation
Surveillance

Updated Concept Essays

Belonging
Citizen
Community
Diaspora
Ethnicity
Immigrant
Identity
Labor
Language
Memory
Mobility
Nation
Native
Technology


Media+Migration Lab Website Updates

We’ve updated the M2Lab website for a smoother experience, working closely together with our collaborator, design studio Wayward Creative.

This update features a new Projects page that gives a quick look at all of our past projects. It also makes improvements for smoother navigation within projects, so you can browse through our writings, videos, and photos with greater ease.

Catch up on earlier M2Lab projects such as The Golden Exile by Elvira Blanco and Pandemic Media and Emergent Infrastructures by Guillermina Zabala Suárez now!


Upcoming

On the Migration Mapping website, look forward to a new analysis on climate migration and Black displacement by Design & Urban Ecologies MA student, Chase Louden.

Sinha Fellow Johann Yamin will also be producing a new project for the M2Lab website. Stay tuned!


Become an M2Lab contributor

Do you research, write, or create projects around media and migration? Check out our Submissions page to see how you can get your projects and writings hosted on M2Lab and its Migration Mapping project.


These updates developed as part of the Sinha Memorial Fellowship, which is awarded yearly by The New School’s School of Media Studies.

Header image: “Social Media Monitoring” (2019) in Brennan Center for Justice, an article highlighted in Migration Mapping. Retrieved from https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/social-media-monitoring