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“Migrant bodies: From oppression to emancipation” is an audiovisual creation made by Samira Ibnelkaïd, Benjamin Faconnier, and Francisca Prieto Fernandez, filmed in Finland, on the lived experience of high-skilled racialized migrants in (Nordic) Europe.

Through interview excerpts, original text, photographs, music, and dance, we aimed to bring together Science and Art to disseminate anti-colonial and anti-imperialist knowledge to a wider audience. In the current European context fueled with hatred and obscurantism, we wanted to create something that would resonate with all those who are hurting because of it.

Please don’t get overwhelmed by the first part of the video that is made to bear witness to all of our hardships and put words onto our lived experiences and complex feelings that are often minimized or dismissed. The second part will cheer you up as it highlights all the different beautiful ways we can support and uplift each other toward collective liberation and emancipation.

There is hope. Always.

— This audiovisual creation is part of the research project
“Liberation: Decolonizing mobility and identity in the digital era”
led by Samira Ibnelkaïd (University of Oulu) and funded by the Kone Foundation. —