January 2017 Hungry Venezuelans flood Brazilian towns, as threat of mass migration looms THE WASHINGTON POST JANUARY 1 The Islamization of Germany in 2016 GATESTONE JANUARY 2 Over 8,000 migrants ‘disappeared’ off Swiss radar in 2016 RT JANUARY 3
Author: Andrea Avidad
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Culture Strike: Art in Trump’s America
“Migration is beautiful.” These three words give dual meaning to Oakland artist Favianna Rodriguez’s daffodil-colored print of a stained-glass-esque butterfly, the wings of which are appropriately filled with human likenesses. The pro-migration butterfly is just one of the many distinctive images used throughout the artist’s transformational body of politically and socially entwined works. FIND MORE: …
New artistic collaboration reflects history of migration
Culture and community combined this past week for a unique artist-in-residence program that brought a renowned Mexican artist to downtown Phoenix. Betsabeé Romero, a contemporary artist from Mexico City, collaborated with other artists from throughout the Valley during her stay in downtown Phoenix. Together, they used their cultural experiences as inspiration for a temporary public …
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January 2016 DENMARK’S MIXED MESSAGES FOR REFUGEES NPR JANUARY 31 ONCE MIGRANTS REACH EUROPE, COUNTRIES FACE INTEGRATION CHALLENGE NPR JANUARY 29 LONG JOURNEY HOME FOR MIGRANT WORKERS IN WAGE BATTLES SHANGHAI DAILY JANUARY 28
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World Press Photo Contest 2016: Reporting Europe’s Refugee Crisis
World Press Photo Contest 2016 View Russian photographer Sergey Ponomarev’s collection of winning images from the 59th World Press Photo Contest. See all: world press photo
People on the move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
More than 75 years ago, a young artist named Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) set to work on an ambitious 60-panel series portraying the Great Migration, the movement between the World Wars of over a million African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North in search of a better life. Today, the exhibition organized by …
A conversation with artist Jesse Chun
— Conducted by Sumita Chakravarty The following conversation was inspired by an exhibition by Jesse Chun in which bureaucratic documents of travel are central to artworks that unpack their varied meanings. such documents are at once material objects and carriers of fraught signification in the contemporary world. Chun literally peels back the layers to bring to …
Fire at Sea
— by Andrea Avidad and Sumita Chakravarty “The reaction of which man has been dispossessed can be replaced only by belief. Only belief in the world can reconnect man to what he sees and hears. The cinema must film, not the world, but belief in the world –this is the power of the modern cinema” …
Camp Code: How to navigate a refugee settlement
Claudia Martínez is an independent researcher who articulated brief sketches describing the spatial and material organization of refugee camps in the Palestinian camp of Bourj Al Shamali, situated high on a hill in southern Lebanon Find the article here
The Night-Side of Hospitals: Migrant doctors and the medical system
Anna Harris and photographer Thomas Fuller undertook an ethnographic study of migrant doctors in Melbourne hospitals, documenting regulatory and cultural barriers present in the mobility of healthcare professionals. Find the article here
Transborder Immigrant Tool: Transition
Almost five years ago, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab released the first iteration of the Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), a mobile-phone technology that provides poetry to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border while leading them to water caches in the Southern California desert. Creative writer Leila Nadir discusses the role of art and activism with Ricardo …
Jesse Chun’s ‘On Paper’
On Paper: Visual Artist Jesse Chun explores visual rhetoric involved in identity and mobility through an appropriation and transformation of the familiar marks contained in immigration documents. On Paper was shown from July until October 2016 at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York City. Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Jesse Chun explores interdependencies between aspects of identity, …
Coriolis Effect: Migration & Memory
Coriolis Effect extends its original curatorial intention of tracing cultural and historical exchanges in the Indian Ocean Worlds, and invites speculations on ideas of movement, displacement and the formation of new and informal models of 21st century communities. The artists selected for the residency represent a diverse geographical spread, and have approached the project concept …
Musicians in a Refugee Camp in France Record ‘The Calais Sessions’
From The New York Times: “I am happy, like a myna/Life in a caravan, thinking about my friends/Let’s go to the garden,” go the upbeat lyrics from “Khandahar,” a poem first written in English and then translated to Farsi by two Afghan sisters, ages 9 and 12, who were living in a trailer in the sprawling …
‘Great Migration’ films highlight transformative power of African-American communities
“Yes, individuals make up communities, and individuals may lead organizations, but it’s really rooted in communities,” said Massiah. “In some ways, institutions are official ways of recognizing communities.” A selection of four films exploring the transformative power of African American communities in Philadelphia will be touring in different libraries and recreations throughout the city, …
British Journal of Photography: The Migration Issue
Putting a face to the greatest humanitarian crisis of out time http://www.bjp-online.com/2016/08/editors-introduction-the-migration-issue-bjp-7851/
Refugees Caught Up in Child Prostitution
Journalist Daniel Howden explores the rise of prostitution among underaged refugees who are settled in Greece. A two-part investigation for Refugees Deeply that reveals a critical situation which mixes the Middle East Crisis and the economic recession in the E.U. “They have got mixed up in a crisis that has nothing to do with them and has …
A Yemeni Teenager’s Trip to Estonia, by Way of Guantánamo
New York Times reporter Charlie Savage describes the impact of an article he wrote about an ex-Guantanamo detainee – on readers, the subject and the writer. The journalist interviews Ahmed Abdul Qader, a Yemeni man who was imprisoned on charges of terrorism for a period of 13 years during Bush’s presidency. After his release, he found refuge in …
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa
But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise gathers artwork from different contemporary artists such as Nadia Kaabi-Linke and Kader Attia who aim to explore issues of moving and migration in the Middle East and North Africa. Exhibition on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City running until October 5th, 2016 Find the Exhibition Overview …
In the shadow of Trump’s Walls: Peter van Agtmael Photos
Photographer Peter van Agtmael, in collaboration with CNN and represented by Magnum Photos, portrays the U.S. – Mexico border in South Texas. The reportage frames the interaction between U.S. Republican Candidate Donald Trump and Pete Saenz, major of Laredo, a Texan City whose population is 96% Latino. Find the reportage along the photographic work in the …
Chantal Akerman’s ‘From the Other Side’: Invisible Migrants
Director: Chantal Akerman 2002 “Sometimes the absence is stronger than the presence” One of the striking features of Chantal Akerman’s documentary, ‘From the Other Side,’ is that so often the faces of Mexicans captured in the film are blurry, as if to underscore their anonymity and invisibility in terms of the long history …