Visual Methodology in Migration Studies

Chapter 1. Introduction Amandine Desille and Karolina Nikielska-Sekula.- Chapter 2. "Have you just taken a picture of me?": Theoretical and ethical implications of the use of researcher-produced photography in studying migrant minorities.- Chapter 3. Migrants' mental maps: unpacking inhabitants' practical knowledges in Lisbon.- Chapter 4. On the Use of Visual Methods to Understand Local Immigration Politics.- Chapter 5. Conclusions Touching and being touched - experience and ethical relations.- Chapter 6. Ethnocinematographic theory. How to develop migration theory through ethnographic filmmaking.- Chapter 7. Migrant Cine-Eye: Storytelling in Documentary and Participatory Filmmaking.- Chapter 8. Story-making and Photography: The Visual Essay and Migration.- Chapter 9. Conclusions Migrants through images.- Chapter 10. Combining participatory and audiovisual methods with young Roma "affected by mobility".- Chapter 11. Photovoice as a research tool of the 'game' along the 'Balkan Route'.- Chapter 12. Crafting an event, an event on craft Working together to represent migration experiences.- Chapter 13. Conclusions Participating as power? The possibilities and politics of participation Céline Cantat.- Chapter 14. Chant Down the Walls: Exploring the Potential of Video Methods in the Study of Immigrant Politics and Social Movements.- Chapter 15. In the eye of the beholder? Minority representation and the politics of culture.- Chapter 16. The Researcher's Nightworkshop: A Methodology of Bodily and Cyber-ethnographic Representations in Migration Studies.- Chapter 17. Conclusions  "Ways of representation": Is a reflexive representation possible?.- Chapter 18. Afterword Visual Research in Migration. (In)Visibilities, participation, discourses.

Karolina Nikielska-Sekula is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her current scholarly research focuses on migration studies (Central and Western Europe, and Turkey), urban sociology, heritage studies, ethnographic methods, and visual and sensory sociology. She received MA degree in Sociology from AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, and her PhD in interdisciplinary Culture Studies from the University of South-Eastern Norway. She was also affiliated with the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) in Istanbul and the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute at the University of Deusto.

Amandine Desille is a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Lisbon, where she conducts a project entitled 'MigRural: Return mobilities to rural Portugal, an assessment of the production of place'. Her research interests include return migration, localgovernance and small and mid-sized cities. Among her most recent publications is the co-edited volume International Migrations and Local Governance: a Global Perspective published by Palgrave in 2018. She holds a PhD in geography from the University of Poitiers (France) and the University of Tel Aviv (Israel). Previously, she has worked with NGOs and UN agencies on topics related to immigration, local economic development and urban planning.