Audio/visual Transfers

The ATLAM research uses the term “audio/visual” to refer to the interconnected role of sound, image and audiovisual media in shaping migration discourses.

This includes oral storytelling and dialogue, visual communication and representation, as well as film and documentary practices.

By approaching these elements together, the research examines how migration narratives circulate across different media and infrastructures, both online and in public spaces.

 

 

AUDIO: LISTENING ACROSS BORDERS

Cumbia: Music and dance as resistance in US-Mexico Borderlands

Sonidero in Mexico-city, April 2025
Sonidero in Mexico-city, April 2025
Anti-ICE Protest in Mexico-city, June 2025
Protest Cumbia Song: La Cumbia de la Migra – Jornaleros del Norte

VISUAL: PHOTO DOCUMENTARY

Visual counter-narrative of migration from Honduras through Mexico to the US (c) Tomas Ayuso

THE RIGHT TO GROW OLD

Moisés and Jaime, San Pedro Sula – The Right to Grow Old, 2017
La Bestia – The Right to Grow Old, 2018
Honduran love at the border – The Right to Grow Old, 2018
Josefina, Tijuana – The Right to Grow Old, 201

AUDIOVISUAL: ITINERANT CINEMA

AMBIGÚ – CARAVANA TRASHUMANTE – Mobile community cinema in Mexico

Galería en Travesía (Migrant Solidarity Action) – Mexico-city, May 2025
Caravana Trashumante (Community cinema encounter) – Estado de México, March 2025

Visual narrative on coffee bags [ES] Migrar no es delito es natural [ENG] Migration is not a crime, it is natural Visual of Monarch butterfly which symbolizes free migration from Mexico to the US