June 11, 2021

Workshop. Methodological and ethical challenges in the research of the video-diaries recorded by black African migrants at the Moroccan-Spanish border

From June 7th-13th 2021, several scholars will participate in the International Conference of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS) “Transitions: Moving Images and Bodies”. The conference aims to bring into the debate the role of media in different mediations and representations of “transit”, as a concept which explores connections and states of being “between” in migration studies. Focusing on media as mediation, the conference will generate a debate between different scholars about presentations on digital devices and communications systems and the particular role that bodies, languages and images play in the (re)production of migrant’s transits and experiences.

Irene Gutiérrez, PhD candidate on Reel Borders’ project, will participate in the 18th NECS Graduate Workshop “Migration as Method: Media, Circulation, and Knowledge Production”, with part of her PhD research on video footage made by undocumented African migrants at the Moroccan-Spanish border. This contribution questions how these recordings, made during their clandestine passage in(to) Europe, can be analyzed as contested self-representations facing hegemonic meanings on migration and race, but also as political media practices that embody digital transgressions against the necropolitical EU border regime.

The workshop will take place on Zoom at 17h CET. More information is available on the website of the workshop.

Reel Borders studies how borders are imagined through film

Workshop. Methodological and ethical challenges in the research of the video-diaries recorded by black African migrants at the Moroccan-Spanish border