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    Traveling Together, Traveling Alone: Experiences of Violence and Danger for Migrating Children and Families in the US–Mexico Borderlands
    (MDPI, 2026-01-04) Mathis, Cherra M.; Huslage, Melody; Held, Mary Lehman
    Decisions to migrate are based on individual and family assessments of risk and opportunity, shaped by economic conditions, risks and experiences of violence, resources, and networks, which interact with personal factors and opportunity. During the journey, migrating people may encounter threats to their safety and wellbeing from both human and natural hazards. This study drew on survey data from 305 Mexican and Central American participants who migrated into the US between 2013 and 2022 alone or with families and children. Respondents provided demographic data and answered questions about stressors that prompted their migration, dangerous experiences encountered on their journey, sources of support, and what they wished they had known. Factors that influenced migration included economic stressors such as loss of job and poverty, witnessing or experiencing interpersonal violence or state violence such as kidnapping or threats to self or family, and environmental factors such as natural disasters. Approximately a third of participants traveled with their children, parents or siblings. Younger migrants and migrating people traveling with children reported significantly higher likelihood of encountering dangers during migration. Implications for supporting migrating children and families who have encountered violence and trauma are discussed, as well as limitations of the research.
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    From Weimar to Winnipeg: German Expressionism and Guy Maddin
    (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, 2019) Burke, Andrew
    The films of Guy Maddin, from his debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) to his most recent one, The Forbidden Room (2015), draw extensively on the visual vocabulary and narrative conventions of 1920s and 1930s German cinema. These cinematic revisitations, however, are no mere exercise in sentimental cinephilia or empty pastiche. What distinguishes Maddin’s compulsive returns to the era of German Expressionism is the desire to both archive and awaken the past. Careful (1992), Maddin’s mountain film, reanimates an anachronistic genre in order to craft an elegant allegory about the apprehensions and anxieties of everyday social and political life. My Winnipeg (2006) rescores the city symphony to reveal how personal history and cultural memory combine to structure the experience of the modern metropolis, whether it is Weimar Berlin or wintry Winnipeg. In this paper, I explore the influence of German Expressionism on Maddin’s work as well as argue that Maddin’s films preserve and perpetuate the energies and idiosyncrasies of Weimar cinema.
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    Editors’ Introduction: Why We Curate Feminist Film Archives
    (University of California Press, 2024-04-01) Hennefeld, Maggie; Horak, Laura
    What do we, as feminists, need right now—from cinema, from archives, from our communities? How can filmmaking, film festivals, and social movements of the past inspire or befuddle us today? And what is at stake in selecting and presenting archival works by women to create new forms of community? Whether we hold space together in a movie theater or a virtual screening room, we cannot help but draw connections between the unfinished past and the open-ended present. Forging these links is the rallying cry of the feminist film curator. In this tenth-anniversary double issue of Feminist Media Histories, we argue that everyone can contribute to the collective project of archival film curating. Unrealized feminist histories pave the way to unforeseen social possibilities. In that spirit, please join our cabal of feminist archival film curators!
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    Feminist World-Making with Cinema’s First Nasty Women: A Roundtable with Neta Alexander, Kaveh Askari, Renée C. Baker, Jennifer Bean, Liza Black, Enrique Moreno Ceballos, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Dana Reason, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Kate Saccone, Aurore Spiers, Gonca Feride Varol, Yiman Wang, and Bret Wood
    (University of California Press, 2024-04-01) Hennefeld, Maggie; Horak, Laura; Loewen, Rachel
    Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a ninety-nine-film DVD/Blu-ray set that highlights silent-era comediennes and cross-dressed women. Cocurators Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak organized two live Zoom roundtables with members of the team who had created, taught, or contributed to the project, moderated by FMH editor Jennifer Bean. One included cocurator and film historian Laura Horak, Kino producer Bret Wood, cocurator and silent film archivist Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, composers Renée C. Baker and Gonca Feride Varol, Indigenous film historian and booklet contributor Liza Black, and film scholar Kaveh Askari. The other included cocurator and film historian Maggie Hennefeld, silent film festival organizer Enrique Moreno Ceballos, film scholars and commentary contributors Yiman Wang, Aurore Spiers, and Kate Saccone, and film scholar Neta Alexander. Rachel Loewen transcribed the roundtables and Hennefeld and Horak condensed and cut together the conversations to highlight the key themes that emerged.
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    Examining the Potential Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Statelessness Determination from a Human Rights Perspective
    (Brill, 2025-10-23) Enigbokan, Omotunde
    Academic literature is scarce on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in statelessness determination and its human rights consequences. Most existing research in the migratory context focuses on the use of AI, machine learning, algorithms and automated decision-making in refugee status determination and temporary resident visa applications. Drawing on this growing body of academic literature, this article addresses this gap by examining the potential human rights challenges that could arise if AI machine learning algorithms completely replaces human decision-makers in the determination of statelessness. These challenges will be explored within the context of non-discrimination, procedural fairness, and privacy. The article also argues that, despite these challenges, the use of AI should not be entirely dismissed. It further proposes ways in which AI can assist human decision-makers in the statelessness determination process – particularly with tasks that do not involve the determination of an individual’s stateless status. The article, however, argues that the partial use of AI may still raise human rights concerns such as privacy risk and it proposes strategies to mitigate potential risks.