Contact Zones: Photography, Migration, and Cultural Encounters in the United States

Editors: Justin Carville and Sigrid Lien

Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has had a central place in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities.