Below are images from our visits to borders around the world. They can also be found at our instagram @migration.tech

These photographs provide a visual representation of the increasingly securitized and politicized context of migration management and deliberately do not show faces of individuals as it is our project policy not to feature any photographs without informed consent and ongoing participation of the subjects.

Unfortunately, visual representations in the migration arena often fall victim to damaging tropes that rely on racist and one sided depictions of people in crisis. In this project, we remain resolute about not perpetuating certain kinds of damaging images of refugees, asylum seekers, or migrants, reducing peopleโ€™s complex stories to click-bait or stereotypical portrayals of bodies from particular ethnic backgrounds that do not respect peopleโ€™s individual stories.

Photo credit: Petra Molnar

Images from European borders

Images from the US/Mexico Border

Images from borders in East Africa

Instagram: migration.tech

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