MIGRANT ARTS, MIGRANT FREEDOMS: SPECULATIONS ON THE FREEDOM TO MOVE AND THE FREEDOM TO STAY
 

Migrant Arts, Migrant Freedoms is a study of artivism (activist art) within the immigrant justice movement roughly from 2010-2020. Examining digital art, storytelling, and activist media, the book focuses on how artivism challenges nativist, anti-immigrant politics and contributes to movements for migrant justice. The book analyzes these works and their circulation through social media, activist campaigns, and political rhetoric. Professor Cisneros will focus on how migrant artivism manifests speculative visions of “migrant freedoms” as the freedom of movement for all, which is also the freedom to stay, or to refuse to be moved from one’s home. Using visual art, memoirs and public storytelling, public media installations, activist films and other forms of media activism, Professor Cisneros seeks to shift understandings of activist art and immigration politics in fields such as Communication, Media & Cultural Studies, American Studies, and Latina/o Studies, and to contribute to public understandings of immigrant justice.