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Beyond the surveillance data set: blending qualitative and quantitative approaches to visualizing forced migration

In: Handbook of Research Methods in Migration

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  • Roopika Risam

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Data visualizations of forced migration have a troubling tendency to reproduce the gaze of the state and, in doing so, foreclose the agency of migrants. In response, this essay begins by articulating how data visualizations of migration rely on “surveillance data sets” produced by intergovernmental organizations to assist states with managing migrants and identifying the limits of these data sets. Next, it considers how data visualizations that uses these data sets participate in the surveillance of forced migrants by reproducing the statist gaze and how the data storytelling project Torn Apart/Separados employed a design approach that, instead, puts the gaze on the state and its carceral apparatus of immigrant detention. Finally, the essay extrapolates guidance from Torn Apart/Separados and identifies practices for visualizing migration that resists reproducing migrant surveillance.

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  • Roopika Risam, 2024. "Beyond the surveillance data set: blending qualitative and quantitative approaches to visualizing forced migration," Chapters, in: William L. Allen & Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, chapter 14, pages 228-244, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20304_14
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