In/Visibility of Flight: Images and Narratives of Forced Migration

In/Visibility is unequally distributed in society and closely related to the distribution of power and privilege. Using images and narratives to mobilize is part of political strategies. The relationship of in/visibility and migration is the guiding question for this edited volume.
The chapters discuss multidisciplinary perspectives and factors that contribute to the visibility of forced migration beyond a policy-centered discourse. They focus on the voices and agency of refugees in different countries and contexts. By including research, practical experiences and artistic methods, the volume will be of interest to readers from different academic disciplines and the arts as well as to practitioners.

Monika Mokre (PD Dr.), born in 1963, is a senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). The political scientist did her doctorate at Universität Wien and her habilitation at Universität Innsbruck. She teaches at various universities. Her research focuses on asylum and migration, democracy and the political public sphere, cultural politics, and gender studies.

Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Dr.), born in 1965, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). She did her doctorate at Universität Wien. Her research fields are political and historical anthropology, diasporas and transnational communities, memory studies and art-based research. Her regional focus is on Kurdish communities in the Middle East and in Diaspora.