A collaboration between the Raah Lab at Concordia University and the Centre for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARG) at University of Pennsylvania and supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connections Grant.
This event considered the emergent subfield of “migrant media studies” as an intersectional investigation into the politics of citizenship, ecology, and mediation, and addressed the myriad ways in which digital forms of resistance by migrants from the Global South undermine the efforts of government institutions in the North Atlantic to control human mobilities. Among the many topics discussed, some of the overlapping themes were of networks and nodes, worldmaking, solidarity, resonances, ecological extraction, and the need to intervene beyond the production of academic knowledge. Student participants were mentored and given generous feedback by professors Hector Amaya, S A Smythe, and Feng-Mei Heberer.
