Migrant Dreams: Documentary as Cultural Resistance for Social Change

dc.contributor.advisorBarndt, Deborah
dc.contributor.authorLee, Min Sooken_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-16T16:15:10Z
dc.date.available2015-01-16T16:15:10Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractI made a documentary fifteen years ago that I still haven’t finished making. I didn’t realize this until I starting writing this paper – but its become clearer to me that the process of creating doesn’t obey spatial or temporal boundaries. Fifteen years ago I made a documentary about migrant Mexican men working in Canada called El Contrato. It was the first feature documentary I’d ever made. I had no formal training in filmmaking and was largely unfamiliar with documentary as a form. Somehow I made a watchable film and in the subsequent years El Contrato has been used as a tool for discussion and political engagement on migrant worker issues in Canada. With this project, Migrant Dreams, I am able to revisit the political and creative goals of my first film through a self-reflexive process that takes me back to the beginning but with a new set of questions that are explored in this paper.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMajor Paper, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/28143
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subject.keywordsMigrant women
dc.subject.keywordsSocial justice
dc.subject.keywordsActivism
dc.subject.keywordsMigrant workers
dc.subject.keywordsMigrant women
dc.titleMigrant Dreams: Documentary as Cultural Resistance for Social Change
dc.typeMajor Paper

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