Migrant Frontiers

Anna Tybinko is a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. Lamonte Aidoo is Kiser Family Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. Daniel F. Silva is Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies, Director of Black Studies, and Director of the Twilight Project at Middlebury College.

• Preface: Coloniality, Racism, and Migrations by Walter D. MignoloIntroduction by Anna Tybinko, Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. SilvaPart I. Migration and Racialization Where the Atlantic and Pacific MeetChapter 1. Unseen Diasporas: Portuguese Labor Migrants in Colonial Plantations by Cristiana BastosChapter 2. Emigration, Anarchism and Ecology in Ferreira de Castro’s Emigrants by Patrícia VieiraChapter 3. Filipinx Negrito: Black Mestizaje and Transpacific Intimacies in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters and José Rizal’s Filipinas dentro de cien años by Sony Coráñez BoltonPart II. Iberian Colonial Settlement, Memory, and Postcolonial KnowlegesChapter 4. The African City: Space, Borders and Identities by Barbara FraticelliChapter 5. Crossing Borders, Bodies, and Time: a Luso-Hispanic Dialogue on (Post)Colonial Interracial Liaisons by Sandra I. SousaChapter 6. The Peripheral Subject in Welket Bungué’s Films by Inês Cordeiro DiasPart III. Anti-Blackness and Migration on the Iberian PeninsulaChapter 7. Race and Fortress Europe in Ozkar Galán's Castigat ridendo mores by Jeffrey ColemanChapter 8. Vidas negras importam: Debates on Blackness, Belonging, and Racial Violence in Portugal by Anna MesterChapter 9. Liminal Inclusions: Black Portuguese Footballers, Portuguese Multiculturalism, and Migrant Epistemologies by Daniel F. SilvaPart IV. Precarity and Displacement in African Migrant Literature in SpainChapter 10. All That Glitters: Questioning the Spanish El Dorado through Rachid Nini’s and Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo’s Narratives of Migration by Anna TybinkoChapter 11. The Incestuous Embodiment of Immigration and Identity: La filla estrangera by Najat El Hachmi by Jessica FolkartChapter 12. Writing from the Displacement: Najat El Hachmi and Global Literature by Lucía Hellín Nistal

‘Beyond widely rehearsed Eurocentric theoretical repertoires, Migrant Frontiers prioritizes decolonial thought and the Black radical tradition. Indeed, sustained dialogue—between contributors, disciplines, and critical theories—defines Migrant Frontiers. Its scope consolidates its place in the larger Global Hispanophone and Lusophone conversations. The radical aim of Migrant Frontiers lies in opening, through the migratory, to the decolonial reimagination of these fields.’ Oana Alexan Katz, Hispanófila