Storying Contemporary Migration
Author: Lena Englund
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 3031620038
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Author: Lena Englund
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 3031620038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charlotte McConaghy
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1250204011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Book of the Year in Fiction "Visceral and haunting" (New York Times Book Review) · "Hopeful" (Washington Post) · "Powerful" (Los Angeles Times) · "Thrilling" (TIME) · "Tantalizingly beautiful" (Elle) · "Suspenseful, atmospheric" (Vogue) · "Aching and poignant" (Guardian) · "Gripping" (The Economist) Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behind everything but her research gear, she arrives in Greenland with a singular purpose: to follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what might be their final migration to Antarctica. Franny talks her way onto a fishing boat, and she and the crew set sail, traveling ever further from shore and safety. But as Franny’s history begins to unspool—a passionate love affair, an absent family, a devastating crime—it becomes clear that she is chasing more than just the birds. When Franny's dark secrets catch up with her, how much is she willing to risk for one more chance at redemption? Epic and intimate, heartbreaking and galvanizing, Charlotte McConaghy's Migrations is an ode to a disappearing world and a breathtaking page-turner about the possibility of hope against all odds.
Author: Stanton Wortham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1350181331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMigration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. Through interviews with residents, the book focuses on key educational, religious, and civic institutions that shape and are shaped by the realities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on African American, Mexican, Irish and Italian communities, the authors describe how interethnic relations played a central role in newcomers' pathways and draw links between the town's earlier cycles of migration. The town represents similar communities across the USA and around the world that have received large numbers of immigrants in a short time. The purpose of the book is to document the complexities that migrants and hosts experience and to suggest ways in which policy-makers, researchers, educators and communities can respond intelligently to politically-motivated stories that oversimplify migration across the contemporary world. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Boston College.
Author: Eva Respini
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0300247486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInsightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to migration and its representation in 21st-century art, offering diverse points of entry into this massive phenomenon and its many manifestations. The featured artworks range from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, video, and sound art, and their makers--including Isaac Julien, Richard Mosse, Reena Saini Kallat, Yinka Shonibare MBE, and Do Ho Suh, among many others--hail from around the world. Texts by experts in political science, Latin American studies, and human rights, as well as contemporary art, expand upon the political, economic, and social contexts of migration and its representation. The book also includes three conversations in which artists discuss the complexity of making work about migration. Amid worldwide tensions surrounding refugee crises and border security, this publication provides a nuanced interpretation of the current cultural moment. Intertwining themes of memory, home, activism, and more, When Home Won't Let You Stay meditates on how art both shapes and is shaped by the public discourse on migration.
Author: Deidre Adams
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03-01
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ISBN-13: 9780996663816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Muli Amaye
Publisher:
Published: 2010-03
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780946745234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK16 tales, penned by 16 accomplished writers, weave a tapestry of contemporary migration to the UK. As the globe shrinks, modern armed conflict, natural disasters and global economic imbalances have impacted on every nation of the world, including Britain. This anthology weaves a tapestry of these disparate voices, giving fictional and fictionalised voices to UK migrants of both recent times and the more distant past.
Author: Maritsa Poros
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010-10-19
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0804772231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains migration patterns through different kinds of social networks and relations, with a focus on the lives of Gujarati Indians in New York and London.
Author: Lucinda Newns
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1351390481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHoming the Metropole presents a new approach to diasporic fiction that reorients postcolonial readings of migration away from processes of displacement and rupture towards those of placement and homemaking. While notions of home have frequently been associated with essentialist understandings of nation and race, an uncritical investment in tropes of homelessness can prove equally hegemonic. By synthesising postcolonial and intersectional feminist theory, this work establishes the migrant domestic space as a central location of resistance, countering notions of the private sphere as static, uncreative and apolitical. Through close readings of fiction emerging from the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas, it reassesses our conception of home in light of contemporary realities of globalisation and forced migration, providing a valuable critique of the celebration of unfixed subject positions that has been a central tenet of postcolonial studies.
Author: Cristiana Giordano
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014-05-16
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0520276655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMigrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is Europe and the rapid shifts in cultural and political identities that are negotiated between cultural affinity and a multicultural, multiracial Europe. The issue of migration and cultural difference figures as central in the process of forming diverse yet unified European identities. In this context, legal and illegal foreignersÑmostly from Eastern Europe and Northern and Sub-Saharan AfricaÑare often portrayed as a threat to national and supranational identities, security, cultural foundations, and religious values. This book addresses the legal, therapeutic, and moral techniques of recognition and cultural translation that emerge in response to these social uncertainties. In particular, Migrants in Translation focuses on Italian ethno-psychiatry as an emerging technique that provides culturally appropriate therapeutic services exclusively to migrants, political refugees, and victims of torture and trafficking. Cristiana Giordano argues that ethno-psychiatryÕs focus on cultural identifications as therapeuticÑinasmuch as it complies with current political desires for diversity and multiculturalismÑalso provides a radical critique of psychiatric, legal, and moral categories of inclusion, and allows for a rethinking of the politics of recognition.
Author: Francesca Vigo
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9788899306823
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