Migrant Workers’ Future by Alireza Gorgani Dorcheh
ABOUT THE COURSE
In the nation-state’s dream of a harmonious and developed future, migrant workers are often deemed objects that should be selected carefully and in service of the “host” nation only.
In the context of settler-colonialism, that imagined host nation is but an existential negation of the colonized nation(s) with migrants’ labour being used to fuel the engine of colonial extraction and expansion.
Against this backdrop, this course digs into the notions of migrant workers’ future, futurity, and futurism through the lens of performance exploring the possibility of emancipatory anticolonial and queer migrant workers’ futures.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
Who might you be, my friend? Have you taken a migration journey? Are you a migrant? Have you migrated mainly to find jobs, for freedom, survival, fun, or to escape endless struggles? Or is all of that true? Are you a migrant student, a refugee, a migrant teaching assistant, a migrant researcher, a seasonal migrant farmworker, or a caregiver? Are you native to your land taking care of it and considered a migrant worker on your ancestral land by an illegitimate settler colonial state. Or a settler trying to navigate your way between the sense of guilt, responsibility, and (god forbid) denial? You could be none of these or a mixture of a few. Whoever you are, take this journey with us and all whose work is cited or presented in this course.