UnArchive: Sonic Materialities and Sound Media of Migration

By Nazan Maksudyan This research is part of a wider research programme aiming to provide a sounded history of migration in Europe from the 1960s to the late 1980s. The cultural history of labor migration is a well-established field with a rich body of scholarship. However, the production of everyday life by labor migrants through sonic means, and the sound cultures shaped by experiences of displacement, have received comparatively little attention. In this short intervention, I emphasize the...