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We live in an era of image saturation where we are always looking – at times without seeing. The visibility of the migrant-other, like the site and sights of the border, takes on multiple spatial and symbolic localities. As borders are redrawn beyond the national geographies, the migrant-other flows in and out of realms ofs visibility. In this chapter I concentrate on how art of and about the border has the power to bring to public view a critique of the ideas produced around migration. Intersecting migration art-activism with anthropology of border, this writing brings to light an assemblage of critical inquiries into the narratives, policies, and documentations that give meaning to the everyday experiences of the border crossing refugees and immigration in the political North.

Keywords: Anthropology of Border ; Anthropology of ‘grey space’ ; Art and Visual Culture ; In/Visibility ; Migrant– Other ; Migration Art Activism ; Politics of Un/Belonging ; Refugees ; Sholeh Shahrokhi ; Visual Culture of the Borderlands ; Visual narrative of border crossing

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Between Lights and Shadows: Border Crossing and the Art of ‘Seeing’ and Being Seen
Intellect , 57 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789389616_6
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