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Abstract
The constant presence of refugees in the media has constructed its own reality, at the expense of lived reality. Any work concerned with refugees’ lived experience will need to find ways to encourage people to see beyond this discourse. Based on research with refugees placed in depopulating villages in Italy, this article follows the process of collaboratively creating a visual essay that reflects the lived reality of refugee participants. The essay’s aim is to let readers share in an experience, rather than merely documenting that of others. This article reflects on efforts to achieve this through experimenting with the essay’s form, poetics and aesthetics. In doing so, the article discusses an alternative way of communicating research and presenting a visual essay.
Résumé
La présence constante des réfugiés dans les médias a construit sa propre réalité, aux dépens de la réalité vécue. Tout travail visant à parler de l’expérience vécue par des réfugiés devra donc trouver les moyens d’encourager les gens à voir au-delà de ce discours. S’appuyant sur les recherches menées parmi des réfugiés placés dans des villages abandonnés d’Italie, cet article suit le processus de création collaborative d’un essai visuel qui reflète la réalité vécue des réfugiés ayant participé à cette recherche. Le but de l’essai est de permettre aux lecteurs de de partager une expérience, plutôt que de simplement documenter celle des autres. Cet article rend compte des efforts déployés pour y parvenir en expérimentant la forme, la poétique et l’esthétique de l’essai. Ce faisant, l’article discute d’un moyen alternatif de communiquer les résultats d’une recherche et de présenter un essai visuel.
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