PROJECTING MIGRATION
Transcultural Documentary Practice
Edited by Alan Grossman and Áine O'Brien
Preface by Hamid Naficy

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.

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.

July 2007
224 pages
978-1-905674-04-6    £29.95 (pbk + DVD-ROM)

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