Narrating Migrations from Africa and the Middle East

Ruth Breeze is Full Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain, where she is PI of the Public Discourse Research Group. Sarali Gintsburg is researcher and member of the Public Discourse Research Group at the University of Navarra, Spain.Mike Baynham is Emeritus Professor of TESOL in the School of Education at the University of Leeds, UK.

• Introduction. Narrating space and time in migration, Ruth Breeze (University of Navarra), Sarali Gintsburg (University of Navarra), and Mike Baynham (University of Leeds)1. Settling Out of Place: Narratives of Housing and Strategies of Aging by a Ghanaian Migrant in the United States, Cati Coe (Rutgers University)2. “We will be able to get there – what? – a life!” The Congolese in Kampala narrating migration through time and space, Ruslan Zaripov (University of Navarra)3. Exile, time and gender: time negation and temporal projection among refugees from the Horn of Africa, Fabienne Le Houérou (CNRS- IREMAM-Aix-Marseille University)4. UND wir sind weggelaufen: borders and walls in narratives of forced displacement. A study with Middle Eastern refugees’ visual narratives in the German as a second language (DaZ) classroom, Silvia Melo-Pfeifer (Hamburg University)5. Children’s narratives about their journey from the Middle East to Hungary, Ildikó Schmidt (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary)6. Families on the Move: Spacetimes in Narratives of Language Socialization within Transnational Multilingual Moroccan Families in Spain, Adil Moustaoui Srhir (Compultense University of Madrid)7. Circumscribed transnational spaces: Moroccan immigrant women in rural Spain, Sarali Gintsburg (University of Navarra) and Ruth Breeze (University of Navarra)8. The route from West Africa to Europe, the precariousness of life in Marie NDiaye’s Three Strong Women, Odile Heynders (Tilburg University)9. Tar or honey? Space and time of Moroccan migration in a video sketch comedy ‘l-kamira la-kum’, Mike Baynham (University of Leeds) and Sarali Gintsburg (University of Navarra)10. Once a dancer, always a dancer: The story of Ahmad Joudeh, Jan Jaap de Ruiter (Tilburg University)11. Digital Narratives of Syrian Political Dissidence in the Diaspora: Chronotopes of the Syrian Revolution and Transnational Grassroots Activism, Francesco L. Sinatora (The George Washington University)

This collection pushes the reader to think of migration experiences as a complex crossing of space and time. It offers analysed-in-depth and thought-provoking insights on migration narratives, applying the most relevant current theories of space and time.