The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

Contents
Illustrations
Check-In: A Prelude
Charting a Course: Exile, Diaspora, Nomads, Refugees: A Genealogy of Art and Migration
Departure A: Moving Images of Globalization
	1 Indeterminacy and Bare Life in Steve McQueen’s Western Deep
	2 “Sabotaging the Future”: The Essay Films of the Otolith Group
	3 Hito Steyerl’s Traveling Images
Transit: Politicizing Aesthetics
Departure B: Life Full of Holes
	4 The Art of Emily Jacir: Dislocation and Politicization
	5 Recognizing the Unrecognized: The Photographs of Ahlam Shibli
	6 The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group’s Nervus Rerum
Transit: Going Offshore
Departure C: Zones of Conflict
	7 Out of Beirut: Mobile Histories and the Politics of Fiction
	8 Video’s Migrant Geography: Ursula Biemann’s Sahara Chronicle
	9 Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri’s Camp Campaign
Destination: The Politics of Aesthetics during Global Crisis
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index