Migrant world making /

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Imprint:East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2023]
Description:xxxii, 266 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13404073
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Other authors / contributors:Juárez, Sergio Fernando, editor.
Khrebtan-Hörhager, Julia, editor.
Lechuga, Michael, editor.
Soto-Vásquez, Arthur D., editor.
ISBN:9781611864687
1611864682
9781609177454
1609177452
9781628955101
1628955104
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:"Migrant World Making explores the process of materially and discursively constructing a homeplace by creating a network of communication tools and strategies to connect with multiple communities"--
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Ieri, Oggi, Domani: Migrants' Being and Belonging beyond the Layers of Loss
  • Unengaged Presence: The Paradox of Refugee Voices on Humanitarian Organizations' Websites
  • Por el Camino: The Representation of Migrant Caravans on Instagram as an Aesthetics of Otherness
  • South Asian American Subjectivities: Searching for Agency among "Forever Foreigners,"
  • Transhistorical Resistance and Containment: Vernacular Discourses of Coalition at Fort Sill
  • My Home/lands and Belonging beyond the Borderlines: An Oral History Performance of a Burmese Media Activist and Refugee in Diaspora
  • Resisting Constructions of "Refugee" Identity through Narrative Performances during a Colorado Refugee Speakers Bureau Event
  • Online Latina/o/x Vernacular Discourse: CHIRLA's Crafting of Home and Resistance through Activism
  • Social Identity in the Queer Diaspora: The Use of Digital Media and the Middle Eastern Gay Refugee
  • You Are a Marked Body: Caught in the Fires of Racialization as an Arab Woman in the American Academy
  • Epilogue
  • Contributors