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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Political and Theoretical Context -- Textual Methods -- The Im/Mobilities Paradigm -- Refugee Journeys -- Borders -- Decoloniality -- Global Context -- Chapter Outline -- References -- 2 People on the Move: Narratives for a Journey of Hope -- Not Belonging and Unwanted -- Somewhere in the EU -- No Longer in This World -- The Longest Journey -- Reversing the Appearance of the Frontier -- References -- 3 Policing Displacement and Asylum: Giving Voice to Refugees -- Crisis at the Border -- The Liberal Dilemma -- Mapping Separation -- Storying the Stranger -- Telling the Story Differently -- Into the Abyss -- Writing the Migrant into the Narrative -- Writing a Name in the Sky -- Leveraging the Queue as a Technology -- References -- 4 Out of Focus and Out of Place: The Migrant Journey -- Telling a Story with a Voiceless Pencil2 -- In the Labyrinth -- The European Middle Ages -- Calais Context -- Framing the Dispossessed -- In the Grey Zones -- References -- 5 Restaging the Colonial Encounter: Far-Right Narratives of Europe and African Migrant Responses -- White Genocide -- The Southern Gaze -- Elsewhere and Here: Revisiting the Colonial Encounter -- Silenced Deaths -- Unequal Mobility Regime -- References -- 6 Fragmented Spaces/Broken Time: Restoring the Absence of Story in the West Bank of Palestine -- Time, Space and Mobility -- Naziheen, the Displaced Ones -- The Architecture of Occupation -- Here Distances Always Measure the Same -- Plan Dalet -- Tracing History -- An Infinity of Traces -- A Jar in Ramallah -- Postscript: An Incurable Malady -- References -- Index.

This article begins with an examination of the increasing border enforcement and militarization of the US/Mexico border in recent years. This has led to the detention of thousands of migrants from, mainly, countries of the Northern Triangle. These migrations have been prompted by poverty, unemployment, gang wars, and environmental disasters. Among these migrants there has been a growing number of unaccompanied minors fleeing from exploitation and other dangers. A significant number of these children are sent to various states, where they wait, sometimes for years, for their asylum case to be heard. Others go missing. The main focus of the article is on these unaccompanied children, those who end up in immigration courts and those who are missing. Two texts by Valeria Luiselli are the subjects of analysis – one a non-fiction essay – Tell Me How It Ends (2017) – which is concerned with those children seeking asylum in the New York Immigration court; the other is a novel – Lost Children Archive (2019) which takes as its focus those children who are lost. Framed by a family story, both texts, in their different ways, treat the trauma of separation suffered by the children, in their countries of origin, on the perilous journey through Mexico, and in the United States. Common to both texts is the writer's struggle to find a language and form to express the unimaginable trauma suffered by these children. Taking its cue from Blanchot's The Writing of Disaster (1980), the analysis of both texts centres on the impossibility of writing about the experience of those "without language" but, nevertheless, having to settle for forms of approximation. ; This article begins with an examination of the increasing border enforcement and militarization of the US/Mexico border in recent years. This has led to the detention of thousands of migrants from, mainly, countries of the Northern Triangle. These migrations have been prompted by poverty, unemployment, gang wars, and environmental disasters. Among these migrants there has been a ...

This article examines a small number of documentary films made since 2000 which focus on the post-genocide situation in Rwanda. It begins by tracing some of the debates about the contested versions of national unity and reconciliation produced by the RPF-led government, which seeks, at least at the level of its rhetoric, to transcend the politics of ethnicity and to end once and for all the culture of impunity which is seen as one of the root causes of the genocide. Acknowledging that the government has achieved a measure of peace and security in a relatively short space of time, critics argue that ethnicity is, however, still an issue in Rwanda and that there is an official RPF narrative — `we are all Rwandans now' — which many academics, journalists and NGO officials have bought into, while at the same time ignoring the elements of authoritarianism and the suppression of dissent which, it is claimed, mark the behaviour of the ruling, Tutsi-dominated elite. The documentary films are analysed in the context of these conflicting accounts of the complexities of the reconciliation process and are shown as cultural practices which reflect upon the contradictions and tensions manifested in the attempts to find top-down solutions to problems which require sensitive deployment of local knowledge, local resources and the experiences of everyday life in still predominantly rural Rwanda.

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit medienvermittelten Migrantenerzählungen am Beispiel des australischen Films "Floating Life" von Clara Lows aus dem Jahre 1996, der als erster australischer Film auf cantonesisch produziert wurde. Es wird dabei der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit solche Erzählungen zentral für das Aushandeln diasporischer Identitäten sind, die als stets im Aufbau begriffen werden. Es wird das Konzept der "Archäologie der Identitäten" verwendet, um darzustellen, dass Migranten eine Identität schaffen können, die gleichzeitig sowohl individualisiert als auch gemeinschaftsorientiert ist. Hier geht es um die Perspektiven einer Archäologie von Identitäten in Zeiten der Globalisierung von Medienkommunikation - und dabei möglicherweise greifbar werdenden alternativen Verständnissen von Globalisierung. (RG)

Frontmatter --Contents --List of illustrations --Introduction --Part I: Discourses and interventions --Postmigrant Europe: Discoveries beyond ethnic, national and colonial boundaries --When do societies become postmigrant? --Contested crises --"The cultural capital of postmigrants is enormous" --A postmigrant contrapuntal reading of the refugee crisis and its discourse --Part II: Cultural representations --Class, knowledge and belonging --Postmigrant remembering in mnemonic affective spaces --"I don't write about me, I write about you" --Towards an aesthetics of migration --Towards an aesthetics of postmigrant narratives --We Are Here --Part III: Postmigrant spaces --The square, the monument and the re-configurative power of art in postmigrant public spaces --Recovering migrant spaces in Laurent Maffre's graphic novel Demain, Demain --Zamakan: Towards a contrapuntal image --"Tense encounters" --Contemplating the coronavirus crisis through a postmigrant lens? --Contributors