Migração e imagem: perspectivas teóricas da retórica visual

Abstract

The human mobility has been a central discussion in the Human Sciences. Even though the proliferation and acceleration of transnational migrants and the question of what they represent to different  people  and  societies  has  become  a  central  issue  in  recent  years,  the  advent  of  the “migration  era”still  constitutes  a  challenge  for  the  field  of  humanities,  as  it  raises  new epistemological problems and the demand for new methodologies and formsof representation. The proposal here is to discuss, from a theoreticalperspective, how the construction of visual rhetoric around the migrant experience takes place. The image here presents itself as an object of reflection on the responsibility to deconstruct stereotypes, seeking new and transforming forms of visibility that  do  not  merely  reproduce  the  visual  discourse  of  the  government  or  the  mass  media,  but “challenge the established political order by revealing what is purposefully and deliberately hidden, articulating what has not yet been said and suggesting viablealternatives to the status quo” (KÖHN 2016, p. 4).