On February 14th 2024<\/span><\/strong>, SIMI organized the webinar Communicating Migration: Resistance, Resilience, and Activism<\/em><\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n We share the welcoming speech of Fr. Aldo Skoda,<\/span><\/strong> director of SIMI, and recordings of the speakers’ speeches<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “Thank you for joining us.<\/p>\n Migration has indeed become a defining feature of the social, cultural, economic, political and religious life of a world increasingly characterized by the controversial forces of globalization as well as by ongoing conflicts and growing natural disasters. It is also a dominant theme in the media, which often stoke fears and divisions at the expense of the stories and lives of those involved. Indeed, we are witnessing a continuous public debate that uses migrants and refugees as tools to fuel division, conflict and sometimes even hatred.<\/p>\n At SIMI we study the phenomenon of human mobility in its multiple dimensions and today we want to focus on the important topic of migration and communication.<\/p>\n We have already addressed the issue of how the media narrate migration, however, today is an opportunity for us to learn more about it by looking at the other side of the mirror and try to understand how migrant people resist this narrative and create their own. To this end, we asked what does the experience of migration mean to those who have lived it? And what can new and digital media offer migrants in regard to self-representation?<\/p>\n To answer these questions, we have gathered scholars in the fields of human mobility, communication, media, and rhetorical studies who employ diverse research methods as well as best practice from the field. Among our experts the authors of the recent volume Migrant World Making, published by Michigan State University Press. This book offers myriad narratives, mosaics of experiences that paint a picture of what it is like for traveling, transnational peoples to make a home in other places by creating a network of communication tools and strategies to navigate tensions, contradictions, and range of emotions that characterize being transnational.<\/p>\n I want to thank all our speakers for taking the time to share their knowledge and expertise with us and I leave the floor to our moderator, Veronica De Sanctis, she will introduce our guest speakers.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>