Ethnographic Research + Practice Lab/ MRU
Research / Project archive

Researchin motion

Ongoing and recent projects developed through the Ethnographic Research & Practice Lab and its collaborators: ethnography, participatory arts, migration studies, political economy, and research-action across campus and community.

Research 01 / Multi-sited ethnography

Financialization of migration + housing

A SSHRC-funded study of how debt and credit shape migration journeys, settlement, housing, and work among Latin American migrants in Calgary and the Greater Toronto Area.

Open research project
Digital mural created from First-in-Family student co-creators' conversations and artistic work.
Research 02 / Arts-based SoTL

First-in-Family at MRU

A participatory arts-and-dialogue project with MRU students who are first in their families to pursue post-secondary education.

Open research project
Collective digital mural from the 2024 Socioecologies and Economies of Migration workshop.
Research 03 / Collective research-action

Socioecologies & Economies of Migration

A collective of Latin American-born Canadian researchers, artists, and activists using art and research-action to examine migration, indebtedness, displacement, and environmental racism.

Open research project

Research as a public archive

These pages bring together project questions, methods, collaborators, funding, public outputs, and source material. Where projects have generated collective artworks or participant archives, those materials are preserved here as part of the research record.

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