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Shifting the Contours of Public Engagement through Ethnographic Filmmaking: Politics, Im/migrant Policing, and Farmworker Health Made Visible
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Abstract
- The article discusses our ethnographic film project that documents the effects of aggressive immigrant policing on farmworker health in North Carolina. We reflect on our filmmaking techniques and collaborative process, which challenge anti-immigrant rhetoric by engaging viewers with humanizing representations of the predicaments and health stressors many immigrants face. Critical insights from observational cinema inform how usually unseen intimacies of everyday life expressed through personal testimonies and visual gestures can evoke empathy and reflection. We argue that such visual public anthropology is needed, as images of the immigrant experience in the United States are often distorted in contemporary political discourse
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Publication Date
- 2020-01-01
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- Visual Anthropology Review Journal