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Created: March 17, 2004
Latest Update: March 17, 2004
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Migration of Peoples

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, March 2004.
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Salgado's child looking through broken window

The Migration Transitions Project: Photonarratives with Latina Immigrant Women By Deborah Bender and Melanie Wasserman, The University of North Carolina, School of Public Health. Center for Documentary Studies (CDS). Volume 10 from the course on migration. figure of a tree under which African children are having a class. the tree provides shade; there's an easel for the teacher, and the roots of the tree are exposed, suggesting erosion.

Interpret this photo as though it is not situated: i.e., children having a lesson under a tree.

Then interpret it as situated: i.e., in Africa, where both soil erosion and education are major issues.

Slide show by Migrations: Humanity in Transition by Sebastiao Salgado, photographer. On the Website of the a href="http://www.ackland.org">Ackland Art Museum of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.