The work of migrants and transborder commuters in rural and peripheralized localities is often considered invisible or, in fact, actively ignored. This multimodal essay reflects on transborder lifeworlds in the Polish–German border region, drawing onContinue reading
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Spółdzielnia/Cooperative: An experiment in longitudinal visual ethnography of migrant activism
Spółdzielnia/Cooperative is an ethnographic documentary portraying the everyday work of a socially engaged cooperative in Manchester, UK, which is run mainly by Polish migrants. This short essay locates the film in a broader context andContinue reading
Visualising Invisible (Migrant) Activism
Migrant activism is usually assumed to happen within migrant organisations. This récit tells the story of how I came to rethink this concept in the course of producing an ethnographic documentary about someone who cannotContinue reading