Contemporary Representations of Forced Migration in Europe

Dr Fiona Barclay is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. She has published widely on memories of colonial and postcolonial migration, including Writing Postcolonial France: Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011), and France's Colonial Legacies: Memory, Identity and Narrative (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013).Dr Beatrice Ivey is a Learning Designer at the University of Leeds, UK. As a researcher in French and Francophone Studies her work explores the transcultural memory of French colonialism across literatures from France and North Africa.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I Art and Activism by and with Refugees.- 2. The Trojans Project: Therapeutic Drama from Syria to Scotland.- 3. Channelling and Challenging the ‘imperative to tell’: Reflections on Negotiating Representations of Refugeeness from Practice-Based Performance Research.- 4. ‘To live well is to story well’: Co-writing and Polyphonic Writing with Denmark’s Asylum Community.- 5. Life in Detention: Journey and Border.- 6. Carceral Witnessing and the Spatial Imagination.- Part II Challenging Representations of Refugees.- 7. ‘She is the meteor and I, her space’: Co-Becoming and Biopolitical Trauma in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail.- 8. Unsettled: Narrative Strategies in Exhibitions About the ‘Refugee Crisis’.- 9. Archaeologies of Nonentity in Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope.- 10. Beyond Objectifying the Humane: Memory in Media and Political Genres.- 11. Wolves in the Sanctuary: Ecopolitics and Forced Migration in the Literature of the Anthropocene.- 12. Remapping the Borderlands of Britain: The Calais “Jungle” and the Enduring Legacy of Imperial Frontier Policing.-