Ethnographic Fieldwork: CDMX – 2025
The research project was granted FWO and CWO funding to conduct a research stay and ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico-city (CDMX) from January until September 2025.
Publications
- Robbe, E., Sanchez, A., & De Wilde, J. (2025). Visual Storytelling as Resistance. Reimagining migrant identities through participatory photodocumentation. Obra digital, (27), 51-74.
- Robbe, E., De Wilde, J., & Sanchez, A. (2024). Digital narratives and migrant belonging on YouTube : prospects and limitations of participative media. I-LAND JOURNAL, (1–2), 81–104. https://doi.org/10.26379/IL2024001_005
- Kryg, I.-C., Maldonado, J. V., Ríos-Infante, V., & Robbe, E. (2025). Acciones y reacciones en torno a la espectacularización del odio antimigrante de Trump (A. Varela Huerta & S. Álvarez Velasco, Eds.). Revista Común.
- Varela Huerta, A., Robbe, E., Ferreira Scavitti, J., Vaca García, M. F., Batista, M., Ortiz, P., … Kryg, I. C. (2025). Ein Tag Ohne Migrant*innen: Aktionen und Reaktionen auf Trumps Spektakel des einwanderungsfeindlichen Hassen. Berlin: Latein Amerika Nachrichten e.V.
Outreach
21/03/2026 X Jornada Cultural del español: Idas y venidas de los autoritarismos en el mundo hispánico
Retos y resistencias en tiempos de nuevos gobiernos autoritarios: narrativas y contranarrativas audiovisuales de la migración en Abya Yala
13/03/2026 CESSMIR – Migration Research in Practice Day 2026
Visual Borders and Alternative Migration Narratives through arts-based pratice
Together with Angyvir Padilla (visual and multidisciplinary artist and performer)
03/02/2026 IMAGINE doctoral school: “The Politics of Archiving the Border: Law, Memory and Creative Methods”
Panel – Living Archives II. Tracing Resistance in Abya Yala (Elisa Robbe & Elisabet Aylwin Pincheira
Sonic Circuits of Resistance: Tracing Cross-border Belonging in Cumbia
08/06/2025 CESSMIR Research Seminar – in collaboration with the Reel Borders Project
01/06/2025 Lecture on Music & Migration – Interdisciplinary course: Context & Nuance
with Prof. Dra. Alexandra Sanchez
18/05/2025 Radio Nopal Podcast:
Lotería de los Núcleos Silábicos – Episodio 9
27/11/2024 LW-Research Day : From Source to Understanding @ Ghent University
Poster: Exploring Audio/visual Transfer of Latin American Migration through Ethnographic Fieldwork
06/06/2024 7th LRI Workshop on Language & Belonging @ Merano (IT) – eurac research
Poster: Latinidad in Transit
24/05/2024 TRACE/ CLIV Research Day Transferring New Ideas @ Ghent University
Migrants’ self-representation in audio/visual products
Conferences
14/09/2026 [forthcoimng] – CESSMIR Conference: Looking Back, moving forward
25/08/2026 ALED-DN: PANORAMAS DISCURSIVOS: Voces, Perspectivas, Retos y Desafíos en Sociedades de Crisis Globales (Puebla, Mexico)
Hacia Contranarrativas de la Migracion en Tiempos de Crisis: un taller creativo con el colectivo AMBIGU TRASHUMANTE
25/02/2026- CLADES: Critical Language Awareness for Sustainability, Solidarity and Inclusion (Ghent, Belgium)
26/02/2026 1. Dialogue Session: Listening in/to the Global South: Sound, Accessibility, and Belonging from Vietnam to the Caribbean
Together with Prof. Dra. Alexandra Sánchez and Luc Hoang
2. Individual Presentation: Translating Urban Hospitality in times of Border Hostility
31/10/2024 Moving Humanities Conference @ University of Groningen (NL) – Resistance
Voice & Resistance in Visual Migration Narratives – Photo documentary “The Right to Grow Old”