Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe

Nelson González Ortega (1952-2022) was Professor of Hispanic Literatures at the University of Oslo. He previously taught at University of Santo Tomás, University of Nariño, and Umeå University.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Theorizing Textual, Visual and Performative Approaches to Recent Migration to EuropeNelson González OrtegaPart I: European Migration Represented in Testimonies and NovelsChapter 1. Othering and the Mutual Construction of (Trans)National Identities and Citizenship in Contemporary African and Spanish Migration Narratives: A Decolonial ReadingNelson González OrtegaChapter 2. Border Crossings, Religious Identities and Collective Writing in Pathé Cissé’s La Tierra Prometida / Diario de un Emigrante. La Terre Promise / Journal d’un EmigrantCarles Magrinyà BadiellaChapter 3. Migrant Literature Migrating: The Case of Fatou Diome’s Le ventre de l’Atlantique and Its Reception in SwedenMattias AronssonChapter 4. Can Migration Narratives Change Public Conceptions of Borders? The Somali-Norwegian Borderscape in Roda Ahmed’s Forberedelsen and Its Medial ReceptionJohan SchimanskiChapter 5. Reflections on Transitional Borderscapes: Performing the Migrant Self in Written and Audiovisual TestimonyAna Belén Martínez GarcíaPart II: European Migration Represented in the MediaChapter 6. The Visualization of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ of 2015-2016: A Case Study of a Croatian Online News SourceLjiljana ŠarićChapter 7. Crossing the Border between Two Spaces: Narration about the Migrant Crisis of 2015–2016 in Italian NewspapersElizaveta KhachaturyanPart III: European Migration Represented in Contemporary European CinemaChapter 8. Border, Space and the Body in the Films Biutiful and VictoriaCarolina Leon VegasChapter 9. Erratic Bodies in European Cinema: A Radiography of Nations and Clandestine BodiesLaura Camacho SalgadoPart IV: European Migration Represented in Theatre and Artworks as Migrants’ Counterdiscourse or ArtivismChapter 10. Injurious Metaphors and (Non-)Art as Activist Counter-Discourse to Greece’s ‘RefugeeOlga Michael and Jovana MastilovicChapter 11. Who Marks the Borders of the (Un)known? The Dynamics of Relational Reflexivity in the Production of a Play on Forced Mobility in Northern PortugalElizabeth ChallinorConclusion: Migration, Border Aesthetics and Discursive StrategiesAna Belén Martínez GarcíaIndex

“The book [offers] an interesting and potentially useful resource for scholars and students working at the intersection of cultural studies and migration research.” • Ethnic and Racial Studies