Humanizando la Deportación/Humanizing Deportation: A Digital Storytelling Project
Mural by Libre HEM
Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media, Digital Humanities at Berkeley, the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the Chicanx Latinx Student Development Office (CLSD).
This digital storytelling project aims to make visible the range of humanitarian issues that proliferate in our current regime of mass human displacement. This UC-MEXUS funded collaboration between UC Davis and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (with additional participation of colleagues from other institutions, including UC Berkeley) has assisted community members in producing a bilingual open access archive of personal stories about deportation (http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu/en/). The project team will present this archive, discussing the methodological, ethical and political issues that they have encountered in its creation.
Principal Investigators
Robert Irwin: Chair, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies and Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of California, Davis)
Guillermo Alonso Meneses: Professor, Department of Cultural Studies (Colegio de la Frontera Norte)
Research Team
Rafael Alarcón Medina: Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies (Colegio de la Frontera Norte)
Ana Luisa Calvillo: PhD Student, Program of Education, Arts and Humanities (Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua)
Lizbeth de la Cruz: PhD Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of California, Davis)
Sarah Hart: PhD Student, Graduate Group in Performance Studies (University of California, Davis)
Jessica Ordaz: Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow, The Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (University of Washington, Seattle) Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Yairamaren Román Maldonado: PhD Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of California, Berkeley)
Danae Valenzuela: PhD Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (University of California, Davis)
Marlene Mercado: PhD Student, Graduate Group in Cultural Studies (University of California, Davis)
Marinka Swift: PhD Student, Graduate Group in Linguistics (University of California, Davis)
Rigo Nava: Alumnus, BA in History (University of California, Davis)
Israel Ibarra: PhD Student, Migration Studies (Colegio de la Frontera Norte)
Dörte Kresbsbach: MA Student, Latin American Studies/Migration Studies (Freie Universität Berlin/Colegio de la Frontera Norte)
José Solorio Ramírez: BA Student, Spanish and Portuguese (University of California, Davis)
Antonio Solorio Ramírez: BA Student, Spanish and Portuguese (University of California, Berkeley)