PROJECTING MIGRATION

Migration has rapidly become a fundamental component of modern life and increasingly determines who we are and how we define ourselves today. Projecting Migration is a groundbreaking multimedia book/DVD-ROM project that attempts to understand the phenomena of mobility and displacement through essays, films, photography and audio recordings. Contributors have been on the ground in locations as diverse as the US/Mexico border, southern Africa, Lebanon and Ireland, and each chapter is linked with DVD chapters of original footage, resulting in a dynamic account of migrant narratives which circumvent the distorting lens of news journalism. This cross-media collection – created in collaboration with the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice at the Dublin Institute of Technology – marks a major transdisciplinary contribution to contemporary debates on migration.

January 2007
224 pages

978-1-905674-04-6 (pbk)

£29.95

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Alan Grossman is Lecturer in Ethnographic Media Production at the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology.

Áine O'Brien is Director of the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology.

‘This multi-voiced and multi-genre project is a fascinating and innovative border-crossing experiment, both at the level of representing migration and at the level of representing documentary practice.’
– Nico Carpentier, Translocation Journal 

‘[The DVD-Rom] is a valuable addition, enabling the book to be used as a truly 'open' document, with references in the text pointing to specific clips on the DVD; the disc itself is easy to navigate, well-designed and well-authored.’
– Daniel Jewesbury, Variant 

'This edited volume situates itself at the intersections between theory and practice, performing the interstitial position that the documentary pieces it looks at seek to reproduce... The book's ambitious scope travels the globe in much the same way as its migrant subjects. The richness and diversity of this book's subject material is its particular strength. The variety of practical and theoretical approaches mean that it will be of interest to anthropologists, ethnographers and filmmakers, as well as scholars of film and those with a particular interest in documentary and mixed media production. It is an exciting contribution to this emerging field.' – Abigail Loxham – Journal of Contemporary Film

'Projecting Migration is a stimulating and hugely interesting anthology which will undoubtedly make a valuable contribution to the fields of both migration and documentary studies.' – Philippa Lovatt, Screen