Project Rationale
In “Digital Stories of Transnationalism and Transmigration: El Salvador to DC,” Ana Patricia RodrÃguez, University of Maryland, does a deep dive into the Salvadoran diaspora in Washington D.C. Again, the question of identity and community are brought up. One of the people that I talked to in Tavira, Portugal told me that there “was not much of an Indian community” in Tavira when I asked him. I did not press him about the matter because we did not know each other well, but if I were to continue to research this topic, I would be eager to learn more about his reasoning behind this. It raises the question of what constitutes a sense of community and is this feeling different for different people? In this reading there is a lot of discussion utilizing a digital story as “a way to make visible a community made invisible in today’s transnational labor market” (RodrÃguez, p. 326). I am not by any means saying I did that or that it was my goal, but again, it would be an interesting discussion to have if I were continuing this research.
In “Storytelling in a Digital Age: Digital Storytelling as an Emerging Narrative Method for Preserving and Promoting Indigenous Oral Wisdom,” by Willox, Harper, and Edge power dynamics were discussed. I struggled with this a bit in my digital story, because I wanted to facilitate a conversation, rather than a formal interview. I wanted to steer clear from the “teller-listener” and “researcher-researched” relationship. My goal was to listen and learn. I honestly had such little knowledge on the relationship between Portugal and India and Tej Kumal, one of the people I spoke to, to hear their story, is the one who told me to start at learning about Goa and go from there. I went in pretty blindly, mostly on purpose, because I wanted to know where locals, and those who had lived it, wanted me to start.
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https://globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/criminalization-childhood-arrivals