Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies

Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła is assistant professor at Jagiellonian University and a migration scholar specialising in sensory approaches, cultural heritage, transnational belonging, and visual and sensory methodologies. Her research explores embodied experiences of migration and contributes to innovative, multisensory perspectives in migration and heritage studies.Amandine Desille is a geographer. Her main research interests are migration governance and place-making, cultural heritage, and visual and sensory methodologies. She mainly works in non-metropolitan areas in the Mediterranean region. She has filmed four films, and is also an active member of non-profit organisations and collectives dedicated to urban and diversity matters through creative participatory work.

• 1 Multisensory Approaches in Migration Studies  2 Mapping Multisensory Migration Research  3 Somatic Agency and the Sensory Construction of Familiarity Among Ecuadorian Migrants in the Netherlands  4 Feeling Connected Across Borders: Haptic Experiences of Cooking Among Palestinian Women in Britain  5 The Sensory Memory of the Researcher: Retrospective and Critical Reflections on the Role of Senses in Migration Research  6 Collaborative Filmmaking as a Conveyor of (Migrant) Women’s Embodied Experiences in Portuguese Academia  7 Navigating the Sensory Landscape of Migration: Voices from the Belarus-EU Border  8 Drawing Past Displacement in Cabo Delgado: From Cognitive Maps to Durable Solutions  9 Multisensory Symbolic Boundaries in a Northern Italian City. Experiences of Exclusion and Strategies of Spatial Agency Among Parma Inhabitants Racialized as Black  10 Embodied Experiences in Motion: Integrating the Senses in Research and Teaching  11 Kinesthetic Community: Sensing Movement Along Diasporic Food-Ways  12 Triple Migrations of ‘Cyber Pets’: Embodied Digital Labour and Multisensory Experiences of Rural Live Streamers in Urban China