Telling Migrant Stories

List of Figures

Introduction. Documenting the Multiple Stories of Migration
Esteban E. Loustaunau and Lauren E. Shaw

Part 1. Enacting Politics of Place in the Diaspora

Chapter 1. Harvest of Empire: Affect and a Counternarrative of Latino/a Migration
Lauren E. Shaw

Chapter 2. Documenting Deportable Life: Knowledge, Performance, and Memory in abUSed: The Postville Raid and Sin pais
Jared List

Chapter 3. Resisting Arizona’s S.B. 1070 through Devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe: Undocumented Immigrant Women’s Contentious Repertoires in The Vigil
Thomas Pineros Shields

Chapter 4. The Unending Journey of the Migrant Mother in Los invisibles and De nadie
Esteban E. Loustaunau

Part 2. (Re)Membering Past and Present Lives

Chapter 5. (Re)Membering the Pedro Pan Children’s Exodus in Documentary Film
Ada Ortuzar-Young

Chapter 6. Migration, Exile, and Identities in Abuelos, by Carla Valencia Dávila
Manuel F. Medina

Chapter 7. La Churona and the Neobaroque Aesthetic: Mapping of a Transatlantic Ecuador
Lizardo Herrera

Part 3. Migrant Identities and Displaced Subjectivities

Chapter 8. Testimonial Youth in Flux: Migration, Narrative, and Children in Which Way Home
Ramon J. Guerra

Chapter 9. Resistance in Motion: Small Cinemas by Cuban Women in the Diaspora
Zaira Zarza

Chapter 10. Who Documents the Migrant? Decolonial Aesthetics, Museo de América, and the Internet Documentary
Juan G. Ramos

Part 4. Conversations on Documentary Film and Migration

Chapter 11. Luis Argueta: Migrant Voices without Fear
Interview by Esteban E. Loustaunau

Chapter 12. Jenny Alexander: Breaking the Silence through Documentary Filmmaking
Interview by Esteban E. Loustaunau

Chapter 13. Tin Dirdamal: Intimate Gaze of Significant Concerns
Interview by Lauren E. Shaw

Chapter 14. Heidi Hassan: Love and Identity in the Cuban Diaspora
Interview by Lauren E. Shaw

Chapter 15. María Cristina Carrillo Espinosa: Filming Common Experiences of Migration
Interview by Esteban E. Loustaunau

Appendix

List of Contributors

Index