MobileDeaf: Deaf Mobility Studies Closing Conference
We were invited to join MobileDeaf, an all-deaf research team based at Heriot-Watt University, to visually capture the summaries of the findings from their five years of research on Deaf Mobility, during their closing conference on the 2nd-3rd June 2023.
The five researchers explored four areas: Forced Migration, Labour & Marriage Migration, Professional Mobility, and Tourist Mobility.
You can find out more about the wider research projects on their website.
“Deaf people have been connecting with each other in international contexts since a long time, “calibrating” their signing towards each other. We are interested in how these connections work, and in barriers and inequalities people experience in these contexts. We explore whether deaf people’s international interactions can be regarded as examples of cosmopolitanism while also exploring the limits of deaf cosmopolitanism. We cover a spectrum of international deaf mobilities in four sub-projects, as deaf people from all over the world have been mobile in a variety of ways: migrating, seeking refuge, attending conferences, camps, travelling, and so on” MobileDeaf
Visual Minutes by Jess Harvey & Isolde Godfrey
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