Photography and Migration

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Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography’s long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so much more can be said of photography’s role in the movement of people around the world. Cameras can document, enable, or control human movement across geographical, cultural, and political divides. Their operators put faces on forced and voluntary migrations, making visible hardships and suffering as well as opportunity and optimism. Photographers include migrating subjects who take pictures for their own consumption, not for international recognition. And photographs themselves migrate with their makers, subjects, and viewers, as the very concept of photography takes on new functions and meanings. Photography and Migration places into conversation media images and other photographs that the contributors have witnessed, collected, or created through their diverse national, regional, and local contexts. Developed across thirteen chapters, this conversation encompasses images, histories, and testimonies offering analysis of new perspectives on photography and migration today. Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS List of maps List of illustrations About the contributors Acknowledgments 1 Photography and migration: keywords PART I (Im)mobility 2 Back to America: photography and Japanese Americans from incarceration to resettlement 3 Residential school photographs: the visual rhetoric of Indigenous removal and containment 4 Animating death: stills that migrate PART II Border 5 The razor’s edge: image and corpo-reality at Europe’s borders 6 Fantasy islands: photography, empathy, and Australia’s detention archipelago 7 The indecisive moment: photoethnography on the undocumented migration trail PART III Refugee 8 Refugee photography and the subject of human interest 9 Feelings, Facebook, forced migration: photographs of refugees and affective spaces online 10 The visual politics of climate refugees PART IV Diaspora 11 Photography and diaspora: a roundtable 12 Intimacy out of doors: landscape, labor, and Chinese diasporic practices of looking 13 Kan Azuma and the Japanese Canadian diaspora: perception, identity, and their erosion Index