Contemporary Representations of Forced Migration in Europe: Beyond Regime and Refuge

ISBN-13: 9783031478307 / Angielski

Fiona Barclay; Beatrice Ivey

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Introduction

1. Fiona Barclay (University of Stirling) and Beatrice Ivey (University of Sheffield), European Border Regimes and Refuge

Section 1: Representing Refugees: Theory and Concept

2. Claire Launchbury (University of Leeds), "How am I supposed to talk to you, or with you, or about you?" Transcultural memory border concepts and the refugee

3. Hella Wiedmer-Newman (Hauser & Wirth gallery, Zurich), Unsettled: Narrativity and Documentation in George Drivas’s Laboratory of Dilemmas

4. Asha Varadharajan (Queen’s University, Canada), “Gimme Shelter”: Identity, Habitation and Affect in Narratives of Migration

Section 2: Representing Detention

5. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Kaya Davies Hayon (University of Lincoln), A Green Hell: Representations of Detention from Manus to Morton Hall

6. Helen Brewer (Goldsmiths, University of London), Carceral Witnessing and the Spatial Imagination

Section 3 : Public Discourses of Refugeedom

7. Béatrice Blanchet (Lyon Catholic University) Remapping the borderlands of Britain: the Calais “Jungle” and the enduring legacy of imperial frontier policing

8. Terri Tomsky (University of Alberta) Dispossession in children’s storybooks: Visualizing experiences of migration

9. Peter Arnds (Trinity College Dublin) Making Monsters out of Myths: Animal Metaphors in Populist Discourse on Forced Migration

10. Siobhan Brownlie (University of Manchester) Discourses of Memory and Refugees/Asylum Seekers

O autorze

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.

Blurb

This book engages with current debates around refugeedom by examining cultural production that represents and interrogates the construction of refugees and the refugee experience on the borders of contemporary Europe. The refugee subject is produced by discursive regimes and border practices inherited from colonial projects that construct the diametrically opposed concepts of citizen and refugee, and their attendant administrative sub-categories. In the early twenty-first century these categories have been strengthened by the politicisation of forced migration and the hardening of ‘Fortress Europe’.

While the predominant response to the increasing numbers of refugees seeking asylum in Europe has been to harden the borders (regime), on the one hand, or to stress the common humanity of those displaced (refuge), on the other, this volume argues that both approaches result in refugees becoming objectified, othered, and abstracted as vectors of exile. It explores what recent cultural production can achieve in engaging with and representing issues of dispossession, detention and resettlement, and probes the limits of artistic potential to mediate the refugee experience. It examines transnational approaches to cultural production that both occupy and exceed the borders of Europe, with a focus on borderscapes, spaces of detention, and (neo-)colonialism. Bringing together original contributions from an international range of scholars, it analyses contemporary textual and visual representations of forced migration to argue that other forms of solidarity and hospitality towards refugees in Europe and beyond must be possible.

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.