This article explores portrait images, wedding albums and Facebook images as personal migrant archives. Examining the particular temporalities and the analog–digital materialities of the images, we unfold their significance for the construction of transnational sociality among Senegalese in Berlin and Dakar, from the perspective of women. By addressing distinct audiences the archives of migration are purposefully made (in)visible by their owners, creating gendered and generational “intimate publics.” Foregrounding the notion of the active personal migrant archive, we see the archive as a resource for aspiration and communication among socially close yet geographically distant persons.

本文探讨了作为个人移民档案的肖像图像、婚礼相册和 Facebook 图像。通过审视图像的特殊时间性和模拟-数字物质性，我们从女性的角度展示了它们对柏林和达喀尔塞内加尔人构建跨国社会的意义。通过针对不同的受众，移民档案被其所有者有目的地（不）可见，创造了性别和代际的“亲密公众”。以积极的个人移民档案的概念为基础，我们将档案视为社会亲密但地理上相距遥远的人之间渴望和交流的资源。