Cross-border migration is accompanied by various burdens and challenges, such as procedural, psychological, economic, cultural, and social. Nevertheless, the number of migrants has been increasing around the world. Therefore, many cross-border migrators create and maintain their “family,” which can never be contained within one country. They live in a “transnational life-world,” wherein they continue cross-border interaction among their family members who live in their home country or in other countries. Cross-border migration has existed for a long time in history. However, recent technological advances have made it easy to transfer people, things, capital, information, and images, thus enabling continuous interaction even after migration, and have created a new phenomenon termed “transnational life-world.” Previous studies on cross-border migration have indicated that the “transnational life-world” is not well understood. Considering this background, the authors have been reflecting on and practising a visual ethnographic method to understand the experiences and thoughts of those who live in the “transnational life-world.” This paper explores the visual ethnographic method based on our research practice.
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