Migration

Editors - Erling BjörgvinssonNicholas De GenovaMahmoud KeshavarzTintin Wulia

The PARSE journal issue on Migration inquires into the embodied, affective, performative, material, visual, and spatial politics of cross-border human mobilities, through arts/design as well as other disciplines and practices. It concerns all the actors involved in these mobilities: the remarkable proliferation over recent years of heterogeneous human migration formations, including labour migrants and people seeking asylum, the border enforcement infrastructures that arise in response to these mobilities, as well as how these infrastructures incorporate market-based migration industry actors.

The journal issue is an encounter between artists and migration scholars as we believe that both address and struggle with a crisis of representation when it comes to migration, which should not be confused with over-simplified discourse regarding a “crisis” of borders and migration. We believe that both fields can have a vital role to play in counter-narrating and counter-visualizing dominant discourses and forms of representation of migration.

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