Migrant World Making

For most migrants, developing communication strategies in host countries is vital for finding social connections, navigating the pressures of assimilation, and maintaining links to their original cultures. Migrant World Making explores this process of constructing a homeplace by creating a network of communication tools and strategies to connect with multiple communities. Since what it means to be a migrant differs from person to person, the contributors to this edited collection showcase numerous practices migrants adopt to communicate and connect with others as they forge their own identities in globalized yet highly nationalistic societies. With varying aspirations and motives for seeking new homes, migrants build communities by telling stories, engaging in social media activism, protesting, writing scholarly criticism, and using many other modes of communication. To match this variety, the transnational scholars represented here use a wide array of rhetorical, cultural, and communication methodologies and epistemologies to describe what the experience of migration means to those who have lived it.

Sergio Fernando Juárez an assistant professor of Intercultural Communication at Loyola Marymount University. His areas of research include critical pedagogies within the field of communication and development of equitable educational practices within institutions to better value multiple forms of intelligence and knowledge. He holds the Activism and Social Justice Pedagogy Award from the National Communication Association.
 

Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Colorado State University and a director of education abroad programs in Europe. She holds three International Communication Association Top Paper Awards and a CSU CLA Best Teacher Award. She researches and teaches Intercultural Communication, Conflict and Memory, Global Studies, and International Cinematography.

Michael Lechuga is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. He researches and teaches Settler Colonial Studies, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric, and Migration Studies. He has twice been recognized with an Emerging Scholar Award, in 2021 by the Critical Cultural Studies Division at the National Communication Association and in 2022 by the International Communication and Media Studies Conference.
 

Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Communication at Texas A&M International University. He studies the relationship between digital media, popular culture, and identity making, and his most recent work focuses on political and health communication. He is the recipient of a Top Paper Award at the 2021 National Communication Association in the Theater, Film, and New Media Division.