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Migrants

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Remembering the Migrant Workers Who Died in Qatar

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu November 22, 2022November 22, 2022

“Cards of Qatar” features digital collectible FIFA World Cup 2022 cards that help us remember those who built the stadiums.

Posted inArt

Coyote Sculptures in Mexico and US Share Vital Information With Migrants

by Jen Roberts May 14, 2020May 14, 2020

Libre Gutierrez’s installations, Transportapueblos, Companion of Migrants, are tattooed with maps of Mexico and provide supplies like water.

Posted inNews

To Mourn the Lives of Drowned Migrants, an Artist Builds a Cemetery in Tunisia

by Hakim Bishara August 27, 2019August 28, 2019

Rachid Koraichi’s Jardin d’Afrique (Garden of Africa) will serve as a burial site and memorial for migrants who have died in the Mediterranean Sea. Although it is scheduled to open next spring, the cemetery already buried 56 bodies of drowned migrants.

Posted inFilm

In Encountering a Sinking Migrant Ship, a Pilot Confronts the Edges of her Civilization

Avatar photo by Andrew Stooke May 27, 2019May 27, 2019

In the film, Styx, the protagonist’s fancy yacht, independence, and wisely provisioned voyage emerge as emblems of blind exclusivity, and the technologies of her civilization are tainted with civic mercilessness.

Posted inArt

An Interactive Story Follows Two Migrants on Their Journeys to Europe

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 7, 2017August 3, 2021

Migration Trail is a 10-day interactive story that unfolds in real time as it follows two migrants on their journey to Europe.

Posted inIn Brief

Shakespeare’s Only Handwritten Manuscript Contains a Message of Empathy for Migrants

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 18, 2016March 18, 2016

Aside from a few signatures, only one example of William Shakespeare’s handwriting survives, a speech from around 1600 that imagines Sir Thomas More addressing the rage of an anti-migrant crowd in England.

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Death With Dignity: German Collective Reburies Deceased Migrants in Berlin

by Laura C. Mallonee June 19, 2015June 19, 2015

This morning in Berlin, a small crowd gathered around an open cemetery grave to pay their respects to a 60-year-old Syrian refugee.

Posted inBooks

A Contemporary Codex Teaches Children About Migration

by Laura C. Mallonee February 17, 2015February 17, 2015

Migrant appropriates the vertical, accordion-bound form of a pre-Colombian codex to tell of a Central American family’s freight train journey to the United States.

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