Full Description
Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography's long and complex relationship to human migration.
While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so much more can be said of photography's role in the movement of people around the world. Cameras can document, enable, or control human movement across geographical, cultural, and political divides. Their operators put faces on forced and voluntary migrations, making visible hardships and suffering as well as opportunity and optimism. Photographers include migrating subjects who take pictures for their own consumption, not for international recognition. And photographs themselves migrate with their makers, subjects, and viewers, as the very concept of photography takes on new functions and meanings.
Photography and Migration places into conversation media images and other photographs that the contributors have witnessed, collected, or created through their diverse national, regional, and local contexts. Developed across thirteen chapters, this conversation encompasses images, histories, and testimonies offering analysis of new perspectives on photography and migration today.
Contents
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
About the Contributors
Chapter 1
Photography and Migration: Keywords
Tanya Sheehan
(Im)mobility
Chapter 2
Back to America: Photography and Japanese Americans from Incarceration to Resettlement
Jasmine Alinder
Chapter 3
Residential School Photographs: The Visual Rhetoric of Indigenous Removal and Containment
Carol Williams
Chapter 4
Animating Death: Stills That Migrate
Anne Teresa Demo
Border
Chapter 5
The Razor's Edge: Image and Corpo-reality at Europe's Borders
Parvati Nair
Chapter 6
Fantasy Islands: Photography, Empathy, and Australia's Detention Archipelago
Jane Lydon
Chapter 7
The Indecisive Moment: Photoethnography on the Undocumented Migration Trail
Jason De León
Refugee
Chapter 8
Refugee Photography and the Subject of Human Interest
Thy Phu
Chapter 9
Feelings, Facebook, Forced Migration: Photographs of Refugees and Affective Spaces Online
Marta Zarzycka
Chapter 10
The Visual Politics of Climate Refugees
T. J. Demos
Diaspora
Chapter 11
Photography and Diaspora: A Roundtable
Anthony W. Lee with Pok Chi Lau, Surendra Lawoti, and Wei Leng Tay
Chapter 12
Intimacy Out of Doors: Landscape, Labor, and Chinese Diasporic Practices of Looking
Nadine Attewell
Chapter 13
Kan Azuma and the Japanese Canadian Diaspora: Perception, Identity, and Their Erosion
Martha Langford
