Visual methodology in migration studies : new possibilities, theoretical implications, and ethical questions
This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of migra...
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Springer
2021
Springer Nature Springer International Publishing AG IMISCOE |
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| Series: | IMISCOE Research Series |
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Table of Contents:
- 12.4.2 Collaboration Under Constraint -- 12.5 To Conclude. A Deficient Cooperation: Absence of Persons Who Have Experienced Migration -- References -- Chapter 13: Conclusions: Participating as Power? The Possibilities and Politics of Participation -- 13.1 The Intersecting Economies of Migrants' Representation -- 13.2 Visuality and Domination -- 13.3 Visual Participation and Counter-Hegemony -- 13.4 Participation and the Re-placement of Violence -- 13.5 Collaborative Knowledge Distribution -- 13.6 Participation as Equality? -- 13.7 Conclusion: Theorising Participation -- References -- Part IV: Representation -- Chapter 14: Chant Down the Walls: Exploring the Potential of Video Methods in the Study of Immigrant Politics and Social Movements -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Video as a Tool to Study Migrants and Politics -- 14.3 The Case Study: NDLON, the Jornaleros del Norte and Immigrant Activism in Los Angeles -- 14.4 The Process of Filming: Access, Role in the Field and Reactions -- 14.5 Using Video to Record Micro-interactions in the Field -- 14.6 Sequence Analysis -- 14.7 Reactivity and the Use of Video to Generate Different Insights and Data -- 14.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: In the Eye of the Beholder? Minority Representation and the Politics of Culture -- 15.1 Introduction: On Representation(s) -- 15.2 Context and Case Studies -- 15.2.1 The Expatriate Archive Centre -- 15.2.2 The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture -- 15.2.3 Bunkers -- 15.3 Representation "of": Which Stories, and How to Tell Them -- 15.4 Representation "by": Whose Voices Shape the Narrative -- 15.5 Representation "for": Culture and Knowledge for Whom? -- 15.6 The Political Responsibility of Arts and Culture -- References -- Chapter 16: The Researcher's Nightworkshop: A Methodology of Bodily and Cyber-Ethnographic Representations in Migration Studies
- 9.3 Cooperation at the Heart of the Documentary Creative Process -- 9.4 From Photo-Voice to Cine-Voice? -- References -- Part III: Participation -- Chapter 10: Combining Participatory and Audiovisual Methods with Young Roma "Affected by Mobility" -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Audio-Visual Research as a "Making Together" -- 10.2.1 Reasons and Problems of Conducting Participatory Research -- 10.2.2 Representation, Authorship and Self-Analysis -- 10.3 Experimental Collaborations -- 10.3.1 From Commissioning Tasks to Research Training -- 10.3.2 Towards More Autonomous Forms of Participatory Data Collection -- 10.3.3 Professionalisation: Structuring and Rewarding Collaboration -- 10.4 Conclusive Remarks -- References -- Chapter 11: Photovoice as a Research Tool of the "Game" Along the "Balkan Route" -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 "Who Is Behind Camera?": Reflecting Photography Along Borders -- 11.3 Photovoice Methodology -- 11.4 "I Took a Photo of the "Game" Because I Wanted to Show You My Life Here" -- 11.5 Conclusions: Re-Thinking Photography and Participation in Violence and Migration Research -- References -- Chapter 12: Crafting an Event, an Event on Craft. Working Together to Represent Migration Experiences -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Genesis, Craft of the Event and Dissemination -- 12.2.1 Genesis and Craft of the Event -- 12.2.2 Concrete Construction of the Event -- 12.2.3 Dissemination of the Call and Reception -- 12.3 Crossing Practices to Reinvent Migrations' Representations -- 12.3.1 A Hybrid Programme -- 12.3.2 Migrations' Representations: Co-creation, Stakes and Intentions -- 12.3.2.1 Nos Super Héros (2018) -- 12.3.2.2 Blue Sky from Pain (2016) -- 12.3.3 When Co-creations Become "Living Archives" -- 12.4 Disciplines and Practices' Interculturality: How to Work With? -- 12.4.1 Becoming a Reflexive Community
- Visual Methodology in Migration Studies -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 On the Value of Images in Academic Research -- 1.1.1 Realism of Still and Moving Images: From Art to Research -- 1.1.2 Context, Manipulation, and Positionality - Towards the "Objectivity" of Visual Research -- 1.2 Conveying Sensorial Experiences in the Field of International Migrations -- 1.2.1 International Migrations as a Visual Culture -- 1.2.2 Beyond the Visual -- 1.2.3 Reaching Out -- 1.3 Places and Bodies, Storytelling, Participation, and Representation -- 1.3.1 Places and Bodies -- 1.3.2 Storytelling -- 1.3.3 Participation -- 1.3.4 Representations -- 1.4 Before We Move onto the Next Parts -- References -- Part I: Places and Bodies -- Chapter 2: "Have You Just Taken a Picture of Me?": Theoretical and Ethical Implications of the Use of Researcher-Produced Photography in Studying Migrant Minorities -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Methodology and Research Context -- 2.3 Theoretical Implications of the Use of Photography in the Research Process -- 2.3.1 Realist-Conventionalist Dilemma -- 2.3.2 Place-Based Photographs -- 2.3.3 Research Context as a Finding -- 2.3.4 Positionality -- 2.4 Ethical Challenges -- 2.4.1 What to Display and What to Hide -- 2.4.2 Changing Ethical Standards in Different Localities -- 2.4.3 Anonymity Protection vs. Agency -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Migrants' Mental Maps: Unpacking Inhabitants' Practical Knowledges in Lisbon -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Working with Mental Maps in Urban Contexts -- 3.3 Unpacking Migrants' Practical Knowledges: Mental Maps and Urban Integration -- 3.4 Mental Maps as Holograms -- References -- Chapter 4: On the Use of Visual Methods to Understand Local Immigration Politics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Filming in Israel
- 4.3 Reducing the Distance? -- 4.4 …or Maintaining the Distance and Refusing to "Go Native"? -- 4.5 Editing and Montage: Knowledge Capital and Storytelling -- 4.6 Screening and Feedback: Shortcomings of Victory Day -- 4.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Conclusions: Touching and Being Touched - Experience and Ethical Relations -- 5.1 Production -- 5.2 Analysis -- 5.3 (Re)presentation -- 5.4 Ethics in Motion -- References -- Part II: Storytelling -- Chapter 6: Ethnocinematographic Theory. How to Develop Migration Theory Through Ethnographic Filmmaking -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Where Is the Theory in Ethnographic Film? -- 6.3 A Middle-Range Theory: Middling Migration -- 6.4 How We Developed Ideas Collaboratively -- 6.5 How We Developed an Argument Through Montage -- 6.6 Teaching Ethnocinematographic Theory -- 6.6.1 Step 1 - Treat Film and Text as Equal -- 6.6.2 Step 2 - Recognize the Analytical Potential of the Editing Room -- 6.6.3 Step 3 - Stimulate Collective Genius -- 6.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Migrant Cine-Eye: Storytelling in Documentary and Participatory Filmmaking -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Migrant Image as Constructed in Recent European Documentaries -- 7.3 Politics of (In)Visibility in Hungarian Documentary -- 7.4 Participatory Storytelling: Strategies of Engaging "Others" Through Film -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 8: Story-Making and Photography: The Visual Essay and Migration -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Visual Essay -- 8.3 Spatial Semiotics As a Method for Studying Urban Places -- 8.4 Observing Ethnic Brooklyn Change: The Case of Sunset Park -- 8.5 Observing East London -- 8.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Conclusions: Migrants Through Images -- 9.1 Produce Knowledge Through Filmmaking -- 9.2 From Text to Image and Back: Where Are We in the Work on Image?
- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Invisible Migrants Travelling for Work -- 16.3 Methodology -- 16.3.1 Reflections on my Migratory Experience -- 16.3.2 Nightworkshop Methodology: Researching All Night -- 16.3.3 Bodily Notetaking: Gathering Sensorial Knowledge -- 16.4 Research-Based Short-Film in Migration Studies -- 16.5 Cyber-Ethnography: Tracking Space and Time to Learn about Bodily Knowledge -- 16.6 A Trilogy: Invisible, Nocturnal and Sleepless Lives of Migrant Night Workers -- 16.6.1 Invisible Lives: Romanian Night Workers in London (2013, UK) -- 16.6.2 Nocturnal Lives: Day Sleepers (2015, UK) -- 16.6.3 Nightshift Spitalfields: A Participatory Approach to Visual Storytelling -- 16.7 Discussion -- 16.8 Bring the real Lives into reel Stories -- 16.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17: Conclusions: "Ways of Representation": Is a Reflexive Representation Possible? -- 17.1 Common Analytical Categories: Visual Storytelling, Opportunities for Co-participation and Reflexivity -- 17.2 Lost and Found in Representations -- 17.3 Ethical Issues -- 17.4 Commentary -- References -- Chapter 18: Afterword: Visual Research in Migration. (In)Visibilities, Participation, Discourses -- 18.1 What Does Visual Research Methods Add to the Study of Migration? -- 18.2 The Right to Disappear -- 18.3 Transitions. Changes. Being on the Move. What Is That All About? -- References -- Correction to: Migrant Cine-Eye: Storytelling in Documentary and Participatory Filmmaking -- Correction to: Chapter 7 in: K. Nikielska-Sekula, A. Desille (eds.), Visual Methodology in Migration Studies, IMISCOE Research Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67608-7_7