This article examines the contentious topic of participation through the lens of a collaborative arts-based project on migration in Morocco. We call for the ethnographic exploration of photographic encounters: that is, participant observation of the processes of shooting, selecting, editing, preparing and exhibiting of photographs and films. First, we explore the need to identify barriers to participation and reflect on the role of researchers. Second, we stress how participatory arts-based workshops can confront Othering stereotypes amongst participants from diverse backgrounds. Third, we challenge social scientists’ tendency to prioritize process over product by considering public encounters as integral to participatory processes.
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{"title":"Out of place, out of language, out of home","authors":"Saradha Soobrayen","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.10.1.55_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.10.1.55_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47684985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the painting of two murals as part of a community arts education project aimed at understanding Marshallese children’s experiences of displacement and belonging. It describes the process and outcome of mural making workshops conducted in two schools: one in Honolulu attended by migrant Marshallese children; the other with a community of Marshall Islanders, internally displaced as a result of the effects of nuclear testing on their home atoll. Engaging with anthropological approaches to art, the article seeks to address important questions around the agency of these murals in the context of community arts education. What do these murals do, both in the process of coming into being, and as finished products? How did the images depicted on them take shape? In what ways were the artist’s intentions, and the children’s input, enabled and limited in this process? Paying detailed attention to these questions, the article argues for a nuanced understanding of what a successful community mural-making process might look like.
{"title":"Making murals in the Marshall Islands and Hawai’i: An exploration of the possibilities and limits of artistic agency in a community arts education project","authors":"Sharareh Sabeti","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.10.1.71_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.10.1.71_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the painting of two murals as part of a community arts education project aimed at understanding Marshallese children’s experiences of displacement and belonging. It describes the process and outcome of mural making workshops conducted in two schools: one in Honolulu attended by migrant Marshallese children; the other with a community of Marshall Islanders, internally displaced as a result of the effects of nuclear testing on their home atoll. Engaging with anthropological approaches to art, the article seeks to address important questions around the agency of these murals in the context of community arts education. What do these murals do, both in the process of coming into being, and as finished products? How did the images depicted on them take shape? In what ways were the artist’s intentions, and the children’s input, enabled and limited in this process? Paying detailed attention to these questions, the article argues for a nuanced understanding of what a successful community mural-making process might look like.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46531357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-10-11DOI: 10.5040/9781784605216.00000002
D. Kinahan
This paper analyzes personal and professional relationships among Métis people in Manitoba. It does so by positioning two stories alongside one another. The first concerns the author’s own experience, where the confirmation of Métis status relies upon the physical historical accounting of ancestral relationship to Indigenous bloodlines. The second concerns the author’s ancestor, Peter Fidler. Fidler documented much of the unexplored land west of Hudson Bay, and notably wintered with the Chipewyan tribe of Northern Saskatchewan (Allan 1987). He transcribed and incorporated traditional Indigenous mapmaking techniques into his works (Beattie 1985), which set him apart from other colonial surveyors. Fidler married a Swampy Cree woman named Mary and they raised a family of fourteen together. This paper argues that, while uneven geographical and historical relationships persist to the present day, Fidler’s work in negotiating identity and place at the Crossings (Number 2) 145 intersection of Cree and European cultures in Canada remain crucial points of understanding. Researching the foundations on which the nation of Canada was built requires asking very broad questions about power and territory. If these themes are applied to the interior region of the continent, inevitably the function Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) as a colonizing power is brought into question. The company was established in 1670 with the goal of trading furs out of the northern part of the continent, but soon adopted an administrative role over the territory as their trade and communication network expanded and their relations deepened with the Indigenous participating in the fur exchange. When Canada became a dominion in 1867, 150 years ago, it acquired the HBC’s claim to the unceded territories of the diverse Indigenous groups inhabiting what would now be called the Northwest Territories. They also inherited the imbricated history of the European traders and voyageurs who for centuries had lived in largely Indigenous world. Piecing together how that history has been handed down in the documentary record is problematic. This paper aims to interpret the lasting implications of the intermarriage of HBC fur traders and Indigenous people in what is today northern Manitoba. It explores the availability of archival and documentary records with respect to men and women and those of European and Indigenous descent, and the relevance for contemporary Métis forms of identity. One way of approaching the documentary record is to follow Ann Laura Stoler’s advice to “read against the grain” of the archive. This means rather looking closely at the information itself. The critical analyst looks at the availability of information and its structure of internal relationships (Stoler 2002; 2009). In following this method as I traced my own family history, I was able to get a picture of the inequality of records from the 1700s and 1800s in colonial Canada. The man whose presence in Manitoba, Saskatchewan
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This article explores existing and emerging frames of writing history involving a push for new modes of telling and writing history/histories. This, from the point of view of a recent movement, in short named Women Making History, launched in Malmö, Sweden in 2013 aiming to cover a 100-year period, from when immigration began until the present day. The movement ‐ engaged in activism and archival work and research around the lives and work of women immigrants in the city ‐ took off in 2013 with support from authors engaged in a Living Archives1 research project, and formally ended, though some activity continues, with a book publication in 2016. In collaboration with the movement Feminist Dialogue Malmö University researchers (mainly the two authors and students) have been documenting activities and workshops over three years, revealing the voicing of ambivalent identities that wish to maintain a plurality and openness of identifications and directions. These voices do not want to be framed as ‘outsiders’, ‘homogenized others’ or ‘victimized strangers’, and struggle with a feeling of being amended to a more homogenous national history ‐ an ambiguous predicament which is investigated in this article through diverse ways of trying to understand how belonging is developed in the notions of multidirectionality, multi-logues, amendments and re/framing.
{"title":"Amendments and frames: The Women Making History movement and Malmö migration history","authors":"Erling Björgvinsson, A. Hansen","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.9.2.265_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.9.2.265_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores existing and emerging frames of writing history involving a push for new modes of telling and writing history/histories. This, from the point of view of a recent movement, in short named Women Making History, launched in Malmö, Sweden in 2013 aiming\u0000 to cover a 100-year period, from when immigration began until the present day. The movement ‐ engaged in activism and archival work and research around the lives and work of women immigrants in the city ‐ took off in 2013 with support from authors engaged in a Living Archives1\u0000 research project, and formally ended, though some activity continues, with a book publication in 2016. In collaboration with the movement Feminist Dialogue Malmö University researchers (mainly the two authors and students) have been documenting activities and workshops over three\u0000 years, revealing the voicing of ambivalent identities that wish to maintain a plurality and openness of identifications and directions. These voices do not want to be framed as ‘outsiders’, ‘homogenized others’ or ‘victimized strangers’, and struggle with\u0000 a feeling of being amended to a more homogenous national history ‐ an ambiguous predicament which is investigated in this article through diverse ways of trying to understand how belonging is developed in the notions of multidirectionality, multi-logues, amendments\u0000 and re/framing.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41560337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cinema and Development in West Africa: Film as a Vehicle for Liberation, James E. Genova (2013)","authors":"I. Vecchi","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.9.2.292_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.9.2.292_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47015044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article aims to investigate the relation between migration and digital technologies, in particular the way in which connectivity contributes to new forms of social inclusion. The study presented explores asylum seekers’ digital connections in relation to affective belonging, focusing on how social media enhance new forms of relationship between the homeland and host countries, as well as across migration flows. The research draws from the humanities and social sciences, proposing a qualitative methodology based on in-depth interviews with five migrants from the Middle East and Africa, who are hosted in a temporary camp for asylum seekers in Italy. It focuses on the way in which they remain connected to their home countries and how they try, at the same time, to create new relationships in the host country. The results outline how different forms of communication and digital networking impact on the migrants’ settling into new lives at the local and transnational level.
{"title":"The impact of digital networking on the life of asylum seekers in Italy","authors":"Magda Pischetola, Clio Sozzani","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.9.2.253_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.9.2.253_1","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims to investigate the relation between migration and digital technologies, in particular the way in which connectivity contributes to new forms of social inclusion. The study presented explores asylum seekers’ digital connections in relation to affective belonging,\u0000 focusing on how social media enhance new forms of relationship between the homeland and host countries, as well as across migration flows. The research draws from the humanities and social sciences, proposing a qualitative methodology based on in-depth interviews with five migrants from the\u0000 Middle East and Africa, who are hosted in a temporary camp for asylum seekers in Italy. It focuses on the way in which they remain connected to their home countries and how they try, at the same time, to create new relationships in the host country. The results outline how different forms\u0000 of communication and digital networking impact on the migrants’ settling into new lives at the local and transnational level.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43974873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Over the past decade, Romanian New Wave (Noul Val) has emerged as a vital component of European cinematic identity, with a number of its films representing stories of diasporic migration within an historical context set before and after Romania’s accession to the European Union. This migration cinema has been a flourishing artistic tool for social criticism, bringing on-screen stories of crime, social degradation and corruption connected to journeys away from Romania, a number of which have Italy as their target. Recent scholarship has identified sociopolitical themes associated with Romanian migration cinema and the cinematic representation of marginalized identities. However, critical attention has so far overlooked the analysis of the recurrent presence of Italy in Romanian films, especially as an index of the extent to which the voice of the Romanian migrant is allowed to penetrate contemporary cinematic narratives. To address this critical gap, this article examines the expressive modes used by Noul Val director Bobby Paunescu to represent Italy in his film Francesca. Experienced by characters as a dead end for utopian desire, this article illustrates how the journey to Italy culminates in failure, disenchantment and grief.
{"title":"The journey through imagination: Francesca","authors":"Valentina Ippolito","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.9.2.169_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.9.2.169_1","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decade, Romanian New Wave (Noul Val) has emerged as a vital component of European cinematic identity, with a number of its films representing stories of diasporic migration within an historical context set before and after Romania’s accession to the European\u0000 Union. This migration cinema has been a flourishing artistic tool for social criticism, bringing on-screen stories of crime, social degradation and corruption connected to journeys away from Romania, a number of which have Italy as their target. Recent scholarship has identified sociopolitical\u0000 themes associated with Romanian migration cinema and the cinematic representation of marginalized identities. However, critical attention has so far overlooked the analysis of the recurrent presence of Italy in Romanian films, especially as an index of the extent to which the voice of the\u0000 Romanian migrant is allowed to penetrate contemporary cinematic narratives. To address this critical gap, this article examines the expressive modes used by Noul Val director Bobby Paunescu to represent Italy in his film Francesca. Experienced by characters as a dead end for\u0000 utopian desire, this article illustrates how the journey to Italy culminates in failure, disenchantment and grief.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44752009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, we examine the status of Iranian graduate students as stepwise global skilled migrants who enrol at Turkish universities, but with the intention of moving to their final destination country in the West. Based on survey data we analyse their migration strategies and career plans at mezzo-level, and conclude that more than 72 per cent of respondents can indeed be classified as stepwise migrants. First, Turkey is a preferred intermediate country particularly for migration of Iranian graduate students of Turkish‐Azeri ethnolinguistic origins. Second, they use social media to communicate with a global social network of friends to facilitate their move to the final destination country. Third, equipped with accumulated ‘migrant capital’ in Turkey they select a final target country based on its employment prospects, extent of democratic freedoms and the quality of higher education. Finally, while in Turkey, as job seekers they also monitor fluctuations in global demands for skilled workers in their respective disciplines.
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