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Community, History, Refugees, Digital Connection, Oral History
Migrant Justice Beyond Borders: Notes on the Collaborative Project “Migrant Connections”
February 25, 2021
Migrant Connections is an oral history project that connects migrant organizers in Greece and students in the “Borders and Migration” course at the University of Utah to share stories of daily life and activism. You can learn more here: https://migrants.lib.utah.edu
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Art, Community, Refugees, Digital Connection
Refuge
June 24, 2020
“Refuge” is a photographic art project that looks at the global refugee crisis through a sociological prism by focusing on the integration of refugees in Germany after the massive influx in 2015. To counter the images widely seen in the media portraying masses of migrants devoid of individuality, I turn my camera to what happens behind closed doors and photograph Germans and refugees who live together under one roof.
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Community, Refugees, Digital Connection, Palestine
Inspiring Digital Reciprocity Amid Catastrophe: Lessons from the Palestinian Refugee Pandemic Response
April 30, 2020
In the middle of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Mina H, a young doctor living in Nahr al Bared refugee camp in Northern Lebanon sent out a digital plea for money and food on Facebook and WhatsApp to her extended family and village network living around the globe. In particular, she harnessed her pre-refugee crisis village network that, socially speaking, is still alive and functioning in digital spaces, to put out the call for help…
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