The topic next week is Politics, Borders, and People in Motion. This is my priority list:

1. Roopika Risam, “Connecting the Dots: Refugee Data Narratives” from The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (p. 153 – 164)
2.  Bishupal Limbu, “Refugee Narratives and Humanitarian Form” from The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (p. 39-49)
3. Lacey Schauwecker, “Sight and Sound: Counter-mapping the U.S. – Mexico Border Crisis”
4. William L. Allen, “The conventions and politics of migration data visualizations”
5. M. Eliatamby-O’Brien, “Narrativizing Unarrival: Digital Autographics by Asylum Seekers in the Pacific” from The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (p. 128 – 139)
6. Burcu Caglar Gencosman and Tulin Inkaya, “Characterization of Syrian refugees with work permit applications in Turkey: A data mining based methodology”

Let me know if you think I missed an important chapter from the Routledge Handbook and I can take another look at it.

As additions, please look at:

• Empire Justice Center, “Health Coverage Crosswalk: Eligibility by Immigration Status, January 2020, https://empirejustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Crosswalk-Stand-Alone-January-2020.pdf
• Pew Research Center, “How Temporary Protected Status has expanded under the Biden administration,” April 21, 2023, https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/21/biden-administration-further-expands-temporary-protected-status-to-cover-afghanistan-cameroon-ukraine/

I don’t need you to learn eligibility rules! Treat them more like artifacts than articles. I only included the Pew Research Center article to illustrate that Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which is one line in the Empire Justice Center guide, is also a long list of subcategories. I’m thinking about categorization, being forced to turn your life story into something that fits these categories, the way that political failures around immigration produced these categories. When do you get to be in the “yes, give them health care” category and when don’t you and who is making those decisions on whose behalf? I’m also thinking about this in terms of the humanitarian framework from the Limbu chapter and the clean visualization style described in the Allen and Risam pieces.

I will get a substantive post up in the next day or so and I look forward to seeing all of yours!

Edit: I saw a couple migration visualizations in another class (the D3 class with Nicole Cote) as alternatives to the invasion type maps: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/graphics/graphic-shows-past-50-years-of-global-human-migration and https://datastori.es/simulated-dendrochronology-of-u-s-immigration-with-pedro-cruz-and-john-wihbey/.