The “Mobility Turn” in Contemporary Latin American First-Person Documentary

This essay explores the aftermath of deportation and the concept of a deportability continuum from the perspective of a transnational, activist researcher. Retracing the process of becoming an activist and researcher via the successful though measured impact of a book of first-person testimonios and photography titled Los Otros Dreamers, this article argues for the significance of the “deportability continuum” as a concept in need of dissemination and debate beyond academe. This analysis of the deportability continuum in a US–Mexico context also renders more clear and concrete the transnational connections between the threat of deportation and the aftermath of deportation. Via the work of community organizing, the connections that implicate the disciplinary investments of Latinxs Studies with Latin American Studies come alive in the ongoing articulations of Poch@ House, a new community and cultural space in Mexico City.

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Experiências migrantes no documentário Latino Americano em 1a. pessoa: algumas abordagens metodológicas

AVANCA | CINEMA ◽

10.37390/ac.v0i0.33 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Sandra Straccialano Coelho

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

First Person ◽

Research Results ◽

Mise En Scene ◽

Migration Experiences

The paper aims to discuss some of the current research results regarding contemporary first-person documentaries who focuses migration experiences. First, we will defend, more specifically, three main axes of analysis regarding this production: (1) the analysis of the imagery and sound archives and the relevance of the concept of archive effect (BARON, 2014); (2) the analysis of the mise en scène of the first-person narration (FRANCE, 1990); (3) the analysis of the poetics of the interviews (GRINDON, 2007) as one of the central strategies in the narratives of the biographical space (ARFUCH, 2010). Next, we will develop this discussion considering excerpts from some of the films of the most recent focus of our research: the latin american production. More specifically, we pretend to take a close look at the main strategies in the recent documentaires Allende, mi abuelo Allende (TAMBUTTI, 2015), Amazona (WEINSKOPF; VAN HEMELRYCK, 2016) and No intenso agora (SALLES, 2017).

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Testimonio and Counterstorytelling by Immigrant-Origin Children and Youth: Insights That Amplify Immigrant Subjectivities

Societies ◽

10.3390/soc11020038 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 38

Author(s):

Ariana Mangual Figueroa ◽

Wendy Barrales

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Latin American ◽

Children And Youth ◽

First Person ◽

Methodological Framework ◽

Immigrant Identity ◽

American Immigrant ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Narrative Practice ◽

Insight Into

This article seeks to amplify our scholarly view of immigrant identity by centering the first-person narratives of immigrant-origin children and youth. Our theoretical and methodological framework centers on testimonio—a narrative practice popularized in Latin American social movements in which an individual recounts a lived experience that is intended to be representative of a collective struggle. Our goal is to foreground first-person narratives of childhood as told by immigrant-origin children and youth in order to gain insight into what they believe we should know about them. We argue for the power of testimonio to communicate both extraordinary hardship and everyday experiences and that—through this storytelling—immigrant-origin children and youth also express imagined futures for themselves and their loved ones. Through our analysis of ethnographic recordings of testimonio shared by Latin American immigrant children and multimedia testimonios created by immigrant-origin adolescents with roots in the Caribbean and West Africa, we gain a fuller understanding of immigrant subjectivities and push the boundaries of “the immigrant experience” still prevalent in mainstream discussions today.

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