'Être vraiment vrai': truth, in/visibility and migration in Morocco

Bachelet, Sébastien; Palladino, Mariangela

Abstract

This article explores truth demands, politics of in/visibility, and migration in Morocco. Based on the participatory research project Arts for Advocacy: Creative Engagement with Forced Displacement in Morocco, we argue that narratives which depart from migrants' confessional accounts of victimhood and contest truth demands can shift the in/visibility of migrants. Besides contributing to scholarship on the use of participatory, creative processes in migration studies, this article intervenes in wider debates about the construction of counter-narratives in contexts where representational practices reduce migrants to victims and villains.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 5, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jul 25, 2023
• Publication Date: Jul 25, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jul 6, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 26, 2025
• Journal: Identities Global Studies in Culture and Power
• Print ISSN: 1070-289X
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2023.2233857
• Keywords: Migration; truth; invisibility; representation; Morocco 2