Media, Migrants, and U.S. Border(s)

The relationship between migration and media has become an essential topic of study due to its ethical and civil responsibility implications, particularly in today's digitalized global environment. The media's narrative on world and regional politics, local and global economy, religion, war, and civil conflicts affects the experience of migration and diaspora. In response, artistic representations and cultural interventions have become forms of activism, resistance, and confrontation against the narrative of power. Likewise, the digital space began to be used more intensely as a place of activism for migrants and civil society interested in their human rights. For instance, digital archives such as Humanizing Deportation and social media are used to do activism, the first one through digital storytelling, where migrants can express their deportation stories on video, and the second one uses digital circulation to create community and as a call for action. Artistic- Technological interventions such as Playas de Tijuana Mural (2019) use art and technology to protest the politics of migration by portraying family separation. Theater intermedial performances use virtual spaces to represent distance and the resistance to it. Cinema shows the social and political implications of their visual narrative. Finally, new practices, concepts, and models in AI, journalism, and internet freedom have created a rhetoric that could benefit migrants. Migration is usually seen through numbers, statistics, graphics, and quantitative data, which dehumanizes migrants. With this book, we aim to contribute to the knowledge of the phenomena through the lenses of a more humanistic approach to activism in digital media in the Hispanic world. We propose chapters that explore the activism of migrants and civil society committed to them from a critical perspective. This book, intended to be read by students, researchers, and the public interested in migration, presents interdisciplinary approaches to activist narratives, art, and digital. It explores diverse types of migrations and related phenomena, such as deportation, voluntary return, caravans, the Cuban diaspora, US childhood arrivals, and the particularities of the Southern U.S. border. These topics are analyzed in essays on race, politics, theater, film, music, painting, journalism, multimedia, digital archives, social media, storytelling, and artificial intelligence. In the abstracts, you will find diverse perspectives on how digital media act as platforms that allow horizontal activism, which is a direct response at the same level as the rhetoric of power. Likewise, the proposed essays enable us to reflect on the role of arts and media in favoring the expression of the migrant community and those who share a common feeling. Still, in the same way, we will see how digital media, if misused, can also harm vulnerable communities. Work by newer and established migration studies, digital culture scholars, and scholars from both sides of the US-Mexico border and other latitudes is incorporated, providing a comprehensive overview of the intersection between migration, media, and arts in Latin America. The book will consist of an Introduction and 13 chapters divided into three sections: 1. Media and Digital Media Artists´Activism; 2. Migrant Activists Online; and 3) Activism through New Constructive Practices. Editors: Rubria Rocha de Luna, Postdoctoral Researcher, Tecnológico de Monterrey Jacob Bañuelos Capistrán, Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Sommario

Introduction (editors).- Chapter 1. Open borders but not for peopleMichaela Russo, Lecturer II, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).- Chapter 2. The Sound of Activism: The Empowerment of Latin American Immigrants Through Music Alfonso Meave Ávila, Assistant Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey.- Chapter 3. The Enactment of (Im)migrant Activism through Challenging Traditional Narrative Style(s) in I Carry You With Me by Heidi Ewing Spencer W. Martin, Instructor, Washington State University.- Chapter 4. The médium is the message: puentes virtuales sobre cuerpos escindidos en una performance cubanoamericanaMaybel Mesa Morales, Assistant Professor, Lycoming College.- Chapter 5. Art Against the Border: US Childhood Arrivals Painting Diaspora NarrativesLizbeth De La Cruz Santana, Assistant Professor, Baruch College, The City University of New York.- Chapter 6. Digital Storytelling, Migrants, and Artivism: Poetry as Politics DeviceMaricruz Castro Ricalde, Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey.- Chapter 7. Resisting Voices: The Digital Storytelling Archive Humanizing DeportationAna Luisa Calvillo, Assistant Professor, Universidad Tecnológica Latinoamericana.- Chapter 8. De aquí y de allá, art and cultural performance of grassroots Mexican returnees organizations in Mexico CityArturo Montoya, Associate Researcher at the Centro de Estudios Genealógicos para la Investigación de la Cultura en México y América Latina A.C (CEGE).- Chapter 9. Migrants Use of Social Media Platforms for Political Practices in MexicoRubria Rocha de Luna, Postdoctoral Researcher, Tecnológico de Monterrey.- Chapter 10. Constructive Journalism as a Catalyst for Activism in the Information on Migration: A Digital Narrative Centered on Human Rights for Social ChangeMaría del Carmen Fernández Chapou, Associate Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey.- Chapter 11. Media Coverage Analysis About Migrant Caravans in Mexican Digital NewspapersFelipe Marañón, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.- Chapter 12. AI-Generated Visual Imaginaries: Migration, Activism and Social Resistance at the US-Mexico BorderJacob Bañuelos Capistrán, Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey.- Chapter 13. Activism in digital spaces: TikTok as a possibility of expression of the migrant population in Mexico in the context of Internet FreedomZaira Yael Fernández Esquivel, Instructor, Preparatoria Politécnica Santa Catarina.

Info autore

Rubria Rocha de Luna is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Tecnologico de Monterrey, where she conducts research on Digital Humanities, Digital Rhetoric, Migration, and Social Justice. She is also the Co-founder and Director of Networks for Migrants without Borders (Redes, migrantes sin fronteras), a non-profit digital initiative that connects the migrant population with civil associations that support them. She completed her doctoral studies in Hispanic Studies, specializing in Visual Culture and Digital Humanities at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Jacob Bañuelos Capistrán is a prominent Mexican researcher in the field of digital culture and visual semiotics. Holding a doctorate in Information Sciences (Apto Cum Laude) from the Complutense University of Madrid, he has developed a prolific career at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, where he currently serves as a Research Professor. Dr. Bañuelos is a member of the National Researchers System (SNI) since 2005 - he is currently SNI-2. His main research lines are articulated around the relationships between image, technology and culture, currently with greater emphasis on the phenomena of image, culture and artificial intelligence.

Riassunto

The relationship between migration and media has become an essential topic of study due to its ethical and civil responsibility implications, particularly in today's digitalized global environment. The media's narrative on world and regional politics, local and global economy, religion, war, and civil conflicts affects the experience of migration and diaspora. In response, artistic representations and cultural interventions have become forms of activism, resistance, and confrontation against the narrative of power. Likewise, the digital space began to be used more intensely as a place of activism for migrants and civil society interested in their human rights. For instance, digital archives such as Humanizing Deportation and social media are used to do activism, the first one through digital storytelling, where migrants can express their deportation stories on video, and the second one uses digital circulation to create community and as a call for action. Artistic- Technological interventions such as Playas de Tijuana Mural (2019) use art and technology to protest the politics of migration by portraying family separation. Theater intermedial performances use virtual spaces to represent distance and the resistance to it. Cinema shows the social and political implications of their visual narrative. Finally, new practices, concepts, and models in AI, journalism, and internet freedom have created a rhetoric that could benefit migrants. Migration is usually seen through numbers, statistics, graphics, and quantitative data, which dehumanizes migrants. With this book, we aim to contribute to the knowledge of the phenomena through the lenses of a more humanistic approach to activism in digital media in the Hispanic world. We propose chapters that explore the activism of migrants and civil society committed to them from a critical perspective. This book, intended to be read by students, researchers, and the public interested in migration, presents interdisciplinary approaches to activist narratives, art, and digital. It explores diverse types of migrations and related phenomena, such as deportation, “voluntary” return, caravans, the Cuban diaspora, US childhood arrivals, and the particularities of the Southern U.S. border. These topics are analyzed in essays on race, politics, theater, film, music, painting, journalism, multimedia, digital archives, social media, storytelling, and artificial intelligence. In the abstracts, you will find diverse perspectives on how digital media act as platforms that allow horizontal activism, which is a direct response at the same level as the rhetoric of power. Likewise, the proposed essays enable us to reflect on the role of arts and media in favoring the expression of the migrant community and those who share a common feeling. Still, in the same way, we will see how digital media, if misused, can also harm vulnerable communities. Work by newer and established migration studies, digital culture scholars, and scholars from both sides of the US-Mexico border and other latitudes is incorporated, providing a comprehensive overview of the intersection between migration, media, and arts in Latin America. The book will consist of an Introduction and 13 chapters divided into three sections: 1. Media and Digital Media Artists´Activism; 2. Migrant Activists Online; and 3) Activism through New Constructive Practices. Editors: Rubria Rocha de Luna, Postdoctoral Researcher, Tecnológico de Monterrey Jacob Bañuelos Capistrán, Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Bañuelos Capistrán (Editore), Jacob Bañuelos Capistrán (Editore), Rubria Rocha de Luna (Editore)
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 07.12.2025
• EAN: 9783032004642
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3200464-2
• Pagine: 247
• Illustrazioni: VI, 247 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color.
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Scienze della comunicazione; Migration, Deportation, Social Media, Media, Digital Media, Politik der National- Zentral- oder Bundesregierung, Artificial Intelligence, Intermediality, Media Culture, Digital Art, Journalism, Activism, Border, auseinandersetzen, Digital Archives, Digital storytelling, Digital and New Media, Media Policy and Politics, Digital Culture, US childhood arrivals, US-Mexico Border