Dataset: Websites & Apps

The large repertoire of Internet-based media provide a seemingly infinite resource to think about migration. More importantly, chat rooms and role-playing games reveal how migrant identities are mobilized via a range of guises, voices, and personas. What patterns can be discerned in the uses made of digital media to map the movements and lives of migrants?

Entries

Interactive Human Migration Map (2022)

January 26, 2022

Using archeological, genetic, and climate data, scientists have pieced together an outline of the human odyssey—the journey that took our species from Africa to all… Read more

How Did Human Civilization Spread? | Habitat Earth (2022)

January 26, 2022

Historic population and cropland data illustrate the relationship between the spread of human civilization and agriculture on Earth between 10,000 BCE and 2,000 CE. Read… Read more

Biden’s policies on immigration (2020)

January 25, 2022

President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to make the United States a welcoming place for immigrants, but his plans to dismantle the Trump administration’s barriers to immigration could… Read more

They made the long, rough journey to cross the U.S. border alone. Here are their faces and voices. (2015)

January 25, 2022

“Unaccompanied” is an audio-visual story of young immigrants in the Washington, D.C. area who were among the thousands of children seeking refuge from the violence… Read more

Marooned In Matamoros (2021)

January 25, 2022

Fleeing gang violence in El Salvador, Nancy and her two children sought asylum in the United States. Instead, they found themselves stuck in a border… Read more

How Did We Let People Die This Way? (2021)

January 25, 2022

Over the past year, a record 2,000 migrants from Africa have drowned trying to reach Spain. Many of these migrants — mostly from Morocco, across… Read more

Near Strangers San Antonio 300

October 24, 2020

An installation by Proyecto Diáspora. Considering San Antonio’s Tricentennial and Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival as SA’s cultural connector between artists, audiences and the world, Near Strangers San Antonio… Read more

MSNBC Special: Damned for Trying

May 28, 2016

This project is by MSNBC in partnership with Magnum Photos The largest flow of modern African migration funnels through a single country — Libya. Coming… Read more

Immigrant Nation

April 7, 2016

“Immigrant Nation explores our connections to immigration, past and present, through storytelling. At the heart of the project is a simple idea: the U.S. is a nation… Read more

A visual guide to 75 years of major refugee crises around the world

April 4, 2016

“The conflict in Syria has now displaced 12 million people, creating the largest wave of refugees to hit Europe since World War II. But in… Read more

Forensic Oceanography: The Left-To-Die Boat

March 4, 2016

“The Forensic Oceanography project was launched in summer 2011 to support a coalition of NGOs demanding accountability for the deaths of migrants in the central… Read more

Sin Maletas: Stories of Refugees from Exile

February 28, 2016

Sin Maletas is an ongoing multimedia journalistic project, started in 2016 by Mexican news outlet Lo Político, that seeks to create awareness of forced migration… Read more

Canal Capital: Relatos del Exilio

February 28, 2016

Colombian television channel Canal Capital created “Relatos del Exilio”, an eleven-episode series that tells the stories of Colombians who were forced to change their lives when fleeing… Read more

Refugee Republic: Interactive Online Documentary

February 28, 2016

Set in the Domiz Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq, Refugee Republic uses a mixture of illustration, photography, moving image, recorded sound and text to give… Read more

Refugee Family Test

February 15, 2016

Refugee Action, an organization that “helps refugees who’ve survived some of the world’s worst regimes […] get the basic support they need to live again with… Read more

Objects Through Time

December 8, 2015

Objects Through Time Migration Heritage Centre, Australia Online since 2010 “Objects through Time traces the history of migration of people, technology and ideas to our… Read more

The Routes of Migration

December 7, 2015

The Routes of Migration Online since 2007 DOMID “The website “Routes of Migration” retraces paths of immigrants and emigrants on a map of present-day North… Read more

Interactive learning resource: Language of Belonging (2010)

October 20, 2015

Language of Belonging is a multi-platform education resource based on the ground breaking Indigenous animation Wadu Matyidi.  Designed specifically for Primary-aged students, this diverse learning program explores… Read more

Where We Came From and Where We Went, State by State

October 20, 2015

The New York Times charted how Americans have moved between states since 1900 with a variety of interactive data visualizations.  Click HERE to see how… Read more

The Journey

October 20, 2015

Syrian refugee Hashem Alsouki risks his life crossing the Mediterranean, his sights set on Sweden – and freedom for his family.  In the darkness far… Read more

The Global Struggle to Respond to the Worst Refugee Crisis in Generations

October 20, 2015

Eleven million people were uprooted by violence last year, most propelled by conflict in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine and Afghanistan. Conflict and extreme poverty have also… Read more