Beyond practical use, some screens reveal personal and intimate moments.
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Some participants chose to focus their video diaries on screens – whether from a phone, tablet, or personal computer. These screens often display preparations for a trip or images of places they dream of visiting or migrating to. The internet emerges here as a vital tool – both for planning a migration path and for navigating life in a new country, whether through maps, job searches, or translation apps bridging the gap between languages.
Beyond practical use, some screens reveal personal and intimate moments: private photographs of two children gazing at a lake of waterlilies, someone giving a massage, or a house under construction.
Such images highlight how these devices are repositories of memory as well as instruments of aspiration.
In today’s world, our lives are inevitably bound to these technological devices – at once tools for shaping the future and digital spaces for holding our past. In the context of migration, a screen can be both a compass guiding the unknown and an album preserving what matters most.
“We are still full of hope, full of hope for this new government”
Portugal _ Participant 1, June 2024
“I think the most important thing is that the new government has proposed many new plans for immigration to Portugal. […] We are still full of hope, full of hope for this new government, and hope that these backlogs of cases can be processed in time.”