Acknowledgments INTRODUCTIONContact Zones: Photography, Migration, and the United States Justin Carville and Sigrid LienPHOTOGR APHIES, REPRESENTATIONS, AND MIGRATIONSThe Figure of Migration David BateVERNACULAR PHOTOGR APHIES AND MIGR ATIONFrom Cavan to Kansas: A Photographic Album of Family Migration from Ireland to North America Orla FitzpatrickA Letter from Pat in America: Photo-remittances and the Irish American Diaspora Justin CarvilleDIASPORIC IMAGINATIONS“First Pictures”: New York through the Lens of Emigrated European Photographers in the 1930s and 1940s Helene RothMigrating Images of War and Dislocation: From War Zone to Contact Zone and from Photography to Photomontage Aleksandra IdziorFar from Home: Winston Vargas in Washington Heights Leslie UreñaEXHIBITING MIGRATIONSA Box, a Suitcase, a Museum Photographic Records of Croatian Immigrants to the United States Sandra Križić RobanWhat Moves You? Georges Didi-Huberman’s Arts of Passage and Pittsburgh Stories of Migration Alexandra IrimiaDOCUMENTING MIGRATIONSSearching for Oleana: Contemporary Photographic Negotiations of Migration and Settler-Colonial Tropes Sigrid LienThe Photographer as Advocate: Representing Migrant Communities in San Francisco and Tijuana Bridget GilmanWitnessing the Trauma of Undocumented Migrants in Mexico Sarah BassnettThere Was no Record of Her Smile: Muriel Hasbun’s X post facto Erina DuganneContributors Gallery with Color PlatesThe role of photography in U.S. migrant historiesSince the mid-nineteenth century photography has had a central place in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘contact zones’ through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography’s role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and in turn how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States.Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘contact zones’ through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography’s role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States.