Migration Concepts

The Concepts you see below are keywords that give meaning to the content we have collected: themes that recur in discussions of migration.

Migration is most often seen in terms of policing the movement of bodies, the competition for skilled labor, or the seepage of problems across countries and continents. Yet migration is equally about inner landscapes, about the movement of thoughts and ideas, images and information. No other human phenomenon evokes in equal measure notions of paradise and plague, adventure and loss, abjection and attainment. These Concepts perhaps provide us entry points towards making sense of such contraries.

Click each Concept below for more details.

alien · belonging · border · citizen · community · data · diaspora · ecology · ethnicity · exile · ghetto · home · identity · immigrant · infrastructure · labor · language · memory · mobility · nation · native · refugee · representation · surveillance · technology

An interactive graphic with earlier iterations of Concepts generated by the Migration Mapping project can be found archived here.