We met our initial goal! Please support our new stretch goal of $5,000.
Support UC Davis faculty and graduate students to document the consequences of evolving immigration policies!
Humanizing Deportation is a community based digital storytelling project that documents the human consequences of US migration and border control laws and policies. Since 2017, our teams in Mexico, the US, Colombia and Ecuador have offered a platform for migrants to share personal experiences in short form audiovisual format via our bilingual website. This archive, which presently houses videos of nearly 500 different community storytellers, including deported immigrants, DACA students, and asylum seekers, is the world’s largest public archive of its kind, reaching tens of thousands of viewers, informing scholars, students, news media, community organizations, policymakers and general audiences.
With immigration issues coming to a boiling point, Humanizing Deportation is in a unique position to discover and disseminate how government actions are impacting the lives of migrants. This Crowdfunding campaign will cover costs to send a team of UC Davis faculty and graduate students to the US Mexico border in the summer of 2025 to record stories of migrants, and report, from the ground, on the human consequences of evolving immigration laws and policies. Should we meet our Crowdfunding goal, we expect to produce 25 or more new digital stories in 2025.
Wow! We have reached our initial goal thanks to the generosity of 38 caring donors!
Since we originally planned this campaign in late 2024, migration dynamics have changed radically. We've got team members from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana and Nogales recording recording new stories of both people getting deported from the US and migrants who had been waiting for the chance to cross the border, and whose hopes to apply for asylum in the US appear to have been thwarted. Principal Investigator Robert Irwin will be visiting Tijuana this week to assess the situation and plan for the UC Davis research team's visit this summer. There are so many migrants whose stories need to be told!
We're therefore upping our goal to $5000 to help us produce at least a dozen more digital stories, and hope folks will contribute to help us make this happen!
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