Migration and Borders
Challenging the Dominant Aesthetic Frames of Migration
Anne Neylon, Deger Ozkaramanli, Christine Schwöbel-Patel, photomontage, 2024
Which images of migrants and refugees are familiar from the news, from policy documents, from NGOs, or from international organisations? And which ones are left out or are marginalized? What is the political significance of prioritising some images over others?
Images have political power. This collage is a provocation to examine and challenge the dominant frame of images of migrants and migration. It includes an invitation to engage in a re-framing exercise. What happens to the narratives of migrants and migration if we re-frame the images?
Exhibition visitors were invited to engage in their own practice of re-framing*:
- Take a frame
- Place your frame on the board using a pin, please number it
- Take a card
- On the card, describe why you chose this frame, give it the same number as your frame
- Use the blu tack to stick the card beside the collage
* see also Event Photos
Our aim is to collect and share these stories (anonymously) to gain a fuller understanding of how participants see themselves as political subjects in the production of aesthetics and counter-aesthetics of international justice.
Anne Neylon is Lecturer in Asylum and Immigration Law at the University of Liverpool.
Deger Ozkaramanli is Assistant Professor in Human-Centred Design at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Christine Schwöbel-Patel is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick.
