Media Datasets

The Datasets serve as the archive of the site: migration-related content is here classified according to type of media they relate to or represent. These serve as the ‘raw data’ on which we draw to arrive at key concepts constituting our mental maps about the migrant/emigrant/immigrant.

By focusing on mediated understandings of migration, we not only engage with the predominant modes of information gathering and processing that have become normative the world over, but treat the media themselves as conduits of meaning rather than as ‘mere’ instruments of self-expression of individuals and communities, migrant or otherwise. We wish to problematize the media as much as ‘the media’ problematize migration.

Click each dataset below to view collected materials.