“To know, we must imagine ourselves”
a comics workshop to re-construct the migratory experiences of children and youth in Mexico City
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https://doi.org/10.54871/cl4c500oKeywords:
migration, migrant children and youth, visual narratives, participatory methods, memoryAbstract
The increasing flows of migrant children and adolescents in Latin America call for methodological strategies that propose new ways of accessing their migratory experiences. This article presents the results of research conducted in a migrant shelter in Mexico City. The questions that guided the research aimed to understand the migration experiences of children and adolescents from Central American countries during their stay in the shelter. Among other methodological strategies, a comics workshop was held to produce visual narratives. Based on a reconstruction of the methodology used, the migration experience of a young person staying at the shelter is narrated. The results show that participatory strategies for the production of visual narratives, can give shape to an imaginary that allows a better understanding of the migration phenomena of children and adolescents.
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