In a typical year, hundreds of thousands of people are deported from the U.S. for entering or staying in the country illegally. A digital storytelling project at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, called , is documenting their stories.
Now, the project its being documented on The Backdrop, a 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis podcast. On this month鈥檚 episode, doctoral candidate Lizbeth De La Cruz discusses the project鈥檚 goals, how it got started and her experiences working as a researcher collecting and preserving these stories. Since 2016, De La Cruz has participated as a graduate research assistant for Humanizing Deportation.
鈥淲e have multiple groups all over Mexico composed of researchers, institutions, higher ed, and grad students like myself,鈥 she said. 鈥淲e support their documentation of their stories. We record their audios with our phones or with recorders and we go on in the field to do the research with them. We support them in creating not just their audio, but also creating a visual aspect of what their storytelling is.鈥
De La Cruz describes digital storytelling as 鈥渁 鈥榙o-it-yourself鈥 style that allows for the participant or the storyteller to use their voice to communicate a story two to five minutes in length and then add images and small clips to make this short video of their whole life or a specific moment in their life that they want to communicate.鈥
podcast is a monthly interview program featuring conversations with 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis scholars and researchers working in the social sciences, humanities, arts and culture. Hosted by public radio veteran Soterios Johnson, the conversations feature new work and expertise on a trending topic in the news. It is available free, on demand at , , , , and .
Listen to the podcast episode . Read the blog鈥檚 initial coverage of Humanizing Deportation here.
Photo: A mural painted on a border wall is among the projects in which De La Cruz participated at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis. (Courtesy photo)
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- Hayley Morris is an undergraduate student at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis majoring in English who works as an intern for the News and Media Relations team in the Office of Strategic Communications.
- Soterios Johnson of News and Media Relations is the producer and host of The Backdrop. He can be reached at 530-454-5956 or sojohnson@ucdavis.edu.