Dismantling Borders, Building Bridges: Migration and Diasporas
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Published:February 2024
Part 2 focuses on the rich cultural assets of diasporic cultures in the United States and how artists and organizers are reconciling identities and connection to geographies beyond the confines of geopolitical borders. Contributions cover shifting narratives around immigration and changing demographics; art as a tool for processing intergenerational trauma; othering and the intersections of military, medical, and bodily language; resilience in immigrant and undocumented communities; collective grief in the wake of racist violence; historical and present intersections of anti-Blackness and anti-Chinese sentiment; Indigenous migrations framed through the stories of Los Angeles's Indian Alley; diasporic models of belonging through an artistic navigation of the Middle Passage; the US-Mexico border as a generative site to explore counternarratives and center community-based knowledge; and art as a gathering place for community conversation and healing.