Through ethnographic work and research into the hemerographic footprint in various corners of Guerrero state, this paper examines the way in which the voices and images of displaced people, their life stories and their spaces of transit enter into histories, reports and newspaper articles.
Within this, the paper reflects on how the narrative and audio-visual treatment of forced displacement resulting from circumstances of violence can contribute, or not, to social mobilization, to influencing public policy and to building future scenarios.
Inés Giménez Delgado is a Doctoral candidate in Latin American Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de México, with a Masters degree in Anthropology, a Masters degree in Journalism and Communication and a degree in History from the University of Zaragoza. She has worked as a consultant and communications officer in many human rights organizations in Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica and the United Kingdom, including the International Drug Policy Consortium, Oxfam GB, ILO Mexico, CDHM Tlachinollan and the Latin American Water Tribunal, among others. She publishes as a freelance journalist in media such as Pikara, Vice, Contralinea. She is a member of the International College of Graduates “Temporalidades del Futuro”. Tw – IG: @Inesikah
This Working Paper was written by the author during her Summer Fellowship on Internal Displacement at the Internal Displacement Research Program of the Refugee Law Initiative. The grant was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, on behalf of the UKRI Global Challenge Research Fund, as part of the funded project “Interdisciplinary Network on Internal Displacement, Conflict and Protection” (AH/T005351/1).
