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- Migration and identity through visual testimonies: Russian women’s experiences in Portugal after 2022Publication . Mitkalova, Aleksandra; Kocogullari, DilayVisual representation of the migration experience becomes especially important in the context of growing political instability, which has worsened since 2022. Women who left Russia in search of safety face not only legal and social difficulties, but also the erosion of identity, the lack of tools for expressing and representing their own experiences. Official narratives of migration often devalue personal history, generalizing it to statistics or political commentary, while subjective, bodily and emotional experience remains invisible. The From Linearity to Multiplicity project arose as a response to the need to restore visibility and sensitivity to this experience. Based on in-depth interviews with Russian-speaking women who migrated to Portugal after 2022, the project creates a visual-editorial form - a zine, in which each story is presented as a unique bodily-emotional statement. Through illustrations, body metaphors, and the zine's layered materials (including tracing paper, color, and quotations), the project seeks not just to capture memory, but to evoke empathy, attention, and respect for everyday strategies of survival and recovery. The project thus offers an alternative visual language capable of conveying multiple, fragmented, and nonlinear migration trajectories, giving voice to those marginalized by official narratives.