Category: Digital Connection

Migrant Justice Beyond Borders: Notes on the Collaborative Project “Migrant Connections”

Community, History, Refugees, Digital Connection, Oral History

Migrant Justice Beyond Borders: Notes on the Collaborative Project “Migrant Connections”

February 25, 2021

By Alborz Ghandehari, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Utah

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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Refuge

Art, Community, Refugees, Digital Connection

Refuge

June 24, 2020

By Yolanda del Amo

“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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Inspiring Digital Reciprocity Amid Catastrophe: Lessons from the Palestinian Refugee Pandemic Response

Community, Refugees, Digital Connection, Palestine

Inspiring Digital Reciprocity Amid Catastrophe: Lessons from the Palestinian Refugee Pandemic Response

April 30, 2020

By Nadya Hajj

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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