This road leads to a village where a Vietnamese woman in China hopes to find her parents—a common scene in xunqin vlogs. Yet for vloggers documenting these journeys, such landscapes appear only briefly, if at all, in the final videos. This photo, taken by the ethnographer at the vlogger’s request while he was driving, was ultimately not included in the final cut.

ARTICLES IN THE “INVISIBILITY” ISSUE

Making the Stakes Visible: Turning Our Back on HIV Prevention and the LGBTQI+ Movement in Madagascar 

Seth Palmer

Teaching

Invisible Students and Phantom Data: Specters of Inequality and Resistance

Elijah Adiv Edelman

Culture

Oases of Care: Elderly Women, Plants, and Life in the “Unpromising” Villages

Aliaksandra Shrubok

Culture

Digital Reunions and the Weight of What’s Left Out

Yaxuan Su

Archaeology

The Persistent Myth of the Nuclear Family

Kent Johnson

Culture

Air Pollution: From (In)Visibility to (In)Visibility and Back Again

Ziya Kaya

Culture

The School Beneath Their Feet

Jordan Corson

Culture

Hong Kong Migrants and their Spatial Longing for the Left Behind

David Kwok Kwan Tsoi

Culture

Migrant Lives: Invisibility, Solidarity, and Repair

Gabrielle Cabrera

Culture

Trust and Its Hidden Publics: Wartime Activism in a Ukrainian Town

Diána Vonnák

Language

Learning Not to Know and the Ismaʿili Invisibility of Taqiyya

Aidah Aljuran

Culture

Fragmented Foodways: Visualizing Seasonal Labor among Syrian Farmworkers in Lebanon 

China Sajadian

Culture

The Fasting Monk, Islamophobia, and Episodic Violence in Sri Lanka 

Geethika Dharmasinghe

Culture

Making the German State See the “Full Truth” of Violence Against Iraqi Yezidis

Allison Stuewe

Going Native

Going Native: Invisibility

Bernard C. Perley