In recent years, scholars of migration and exile have challenged standard integration and assimilation paradigms that (mis)represent migration as a one-way street. This gathering re-centers the fugitive knowledge – knowledge escaping the archive, or only elusively available within it – produced by mobile individuals and groups through their fleeting voices, testimonies, traces of mobility and immobility, solidarity networks, and multidirectional memory. 

Grace Aneiza Ali will speak on “The Ones Who Are Left: Art and Migration in the Guyanese Diaspora” as part of the conversation, Arts and Affects as Archives of Belonging.