In/Visibility of Flight: Images and Narratives of Forced Migration

by Monika Mokre (Editor), Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Editor)

Overview

In/Visibility is unequally distributed in society and closely related to the distribution of power and privilege. Using images and narratives to mobilize is part of political strategies. The relationship of in/visibility and migration is the guiding question for this edited volume.
The chapters discuss multidisciplinary perspectives and factors that contribute to the visibility of forced migration beyond a policy-centered discourse. They focus on the voices and agency of refugees in different countries and contexts. By including research, practical experiences and artistic methods, the volume will be of interest to readers from different academic disciplines and the arts as well as to practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837669039
Publication date:	05/07/2024
Series:	Forced Migration Studies Series
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Monika Mokre (PD Dr.), born in 1963, is a senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). The political scientist did her doctorate at Universität Wien and her habilitation at Universität Innsbruck. She teaches at various universities. Her research focuses on asylum and migration, democracy and the political public sphere, cultural politics, and gender studies.
Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Dr.), born in 1965, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). She did her doctorate at Universität Wien. Her research fields are political and historical anthropology, diasporas and transnational communities, memory studies and art-based research. Her regional focus is on Kurdish communities in the Middle East and in Diaspora.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction: in/visibility, privilege, and discrimination 9
Involuntary journey—a picture theater in unjust scenes 19
Visibility and interactions of immigrant Kurdish women in urban public spaces: a comparison of Vienna and Cologne 29
Ethical reflexivity in qualitative study and participatory research among Afghan refugee women in Munich, Germany 69
Blurred vision: potential and challenges of co-creation approaches for migrants' visibility 87
"Traces and masks of refugees"— artistic representations of the visible, the hidden and the ambiguous 115
Modernity's sacrificial tradition: "The endless screams of my mother" 141
Roma and the war against Ukraine 159
The many fears we live with 191
Those in darkness drop from sight—the hypervisibility, invisibility, and voicelessness of refugees 199
Marginalized or essential (workers)? The pandemic effects on humanitarian migrants 219
Below the radar—the invisibility of agency among diaspora and refugee networks during the COVID-19 pandemic 237
Contributors 263

Editorial Reviews

"This book contributes to the emerging research agenda on the decentering of migration studies, to have a closer look at migrants’ agency, beyond the supposed effectiveness of policies and questions of governance."

Austrian Journal of Political Science 2024 - Marguerite Arnoux Bellavitis