Ecuadorian Migration, Nostalgia, and Technology in Transnational Times

Silvia Mejía Estévez
Vambery FellowMITHUniversity of MarylandRead Bio

In this Digital Dialogue Silvia Mejía Estévez will show clips from her dissertation project, a documetary video analyzing how new technologies such as Internet, satellite communications, email, video-conferences, and cell phones have changed the experience of being away from home, transforming nostalgia and encouraging the appearance of transnational phenomena.

Silvia Mejía Estévez is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature and a MITH fellow.

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