In the last decade, comics and graphic novels on migration have become an essential forum for representing refugee experience. This emergent genre of graphic narration not only offers the representation of migrant hardships from the subjective perspective of refugees, artists and volunteers working in the community, comics on the refugee crisis also develop empathy and awareness for the plight of migrants internationally by giving a voice to countless nameless ‐ and often faceless ‐ migrants, whose images circulate widely in the media. Moreover, comic artists working on refugee and migrant subjects are inventing new visual languages to express these individuals’ perilous journeys from war-torn regions of the Middle East, Africa and Asia to European soil, incorporating the very media technologies essential for migration ‐ and its representation ‐ into the comics form. Looking at the smartphone and social media aesthetics of two comics on global forced migration, Kate Evans’s Threads: From the Refugee Crisis and Reinhard Kleist’s An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar, this article assesses the significance of incorporating the technologies of migration into its representation.
在过去十年中，关于移民的漫画和图画小说已成为代表难民经历的重要论坛。这种新兴的图形叙事类型不仅从难民、社区艺术家和志愿者的主观角度呈现了移民的苦难，有关难民危机的漫画也通过向无数无名(通常是默默无闻)移民发出声音，培养了对国际移民困境的同情和意识，他们的形象在媒体上广泛传播。此外，以难民和移民为主题的漫画艺术家正在发明新的视觉语言，以表达这些人从中东、非洲和亚洲饱受战争蹂躏的地区到欧洲土地的危险旅程，将对移民及其表现至关重要的媒体技术融入漫画形式。本文以凯特·埃文斯(Kate Evans)的《线索:来自难民危机》(Threads: From the Refugee Crisis)和莱因哈德·克莱斯特(Reinhard Kleist)的《奥林匹克梦:萨米亚·优素福·奥马尔的故事》(An Olympic Dream: the Story of Samia Yusuf Omar)这两部关于全球被迫移民的漫画的智能手机和社交媒体美学为例，评估了将移民技术融入其表现形式的重要性。
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Choro is an instrumental Brazilian music genre that emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century. It can adopt various forms with a basis of guitar, flute and cavaquinho ‐ the latter, a small guitar of Portuguese origin. Musical arrangements are normally elaborate, although in Brazil the players gather in usually informal and open settings, in indoors or outdoors formations called rodas (‘circles’). Following the customs of many Brazilian genres, players sit in a circle facing each other, the audience stands around and, occasionally, skilled couples dance to it. A roda de choro is not a concert, yet it is not just a rehearsal, but also a musical experience based on spontaneity. This article, drawing upon an observation exercise in the Brussels (Belgium) Choro scene, intends to explore the multitude of meanings of Choro as a practice in which Brazilians in diaspora, other migrants and locals engage and share experiences with each other, focusing on the social geographies of Choro and the social networks derived from this musical practice. The observation of this music-making process in Brussels raises additional questions of Brazilian (musical) identity in diaspora and its relation to the notions of longing (saudades), authenticity, affinity, transcendence and joy.
Choro是19世纪出现在巴西里约热内卢的一种器乐类型。它可以采用多种形式，以吉他、长笛和卡瓦基尼奥(cavaquinho)为基础，后者是一种源自葡萄牙的小型吉他。音乐安排通常是精心制作的，尽管在巴西，演奏者通常聚集在非正式和开放的环境中，在室内或室外形成称为rodas(“圆圈”)的队形。按照许多巴西流派的习俗，玩家面对面坐成一圈，观众站在周围，偶尔会有熟练的情侣随着它跳舞。roda de choro不是一场音乐会，但它也不仅仅是一次排练，而是一种基于自发性的音乐体验。本文基于对比利时布鲁塞尔Choro现场的观察，旨在探索Choro作为一种实践的多种含义，在这种实践中，散居的巴西人、其他移民和当地人相互参与并分享经验，重点关注Choro的社会地理和源于这种音乐实践的社会网络。在布鲁塞尔对这一音乐制作过程的观察提出了更多的问题，即侨民中的巴西(音乐)身份及其与渴望(saudades)、真实性、亲和力、超越和快乐等概念的关系。
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Review of: Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora, Nadia Jones-Gailani (2020)Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 200 pp.,ISBN 978-1-48750-316-1, h/bk, £44.55
评论：《跨国身份和伊拉克散居妇女生活中的记忆制造》，Nadia Jones Gailani（2020），多伦多，布法罗和伦敦：多伦多大学出版社，200页，ISBN 978-1-48750-316-1，h/bk，44.55英镑
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This article focuses on the experiences of widespread reception of asylum seekers and refugees carried out in some Italian Alpine localities, specifically in Valsugana in Trentino and Val di Susa in Piemonte, in the west and in the east of northern Italy. We focus on the description of these two case studies and their relation with the frame of national policies on migration in Italy. What were the main characteristics of these two case studies? How do these local policies interact with the fragmentation, the inconsistency and the emergency-based approach of Italian national immigration policies? This research subsumes and aims to move beyond the questions raised above, focusing on the points of view and narratives of social workers, project managers and reception workers (operatore dell’accoglienza). These actors often describe the implementation process as a process of policy-making. In conclusion, these case studies highlight that in Italy good practices of reception represent a field where there are coordinations, tensions and conflicts between national and local levels. Indeed, in everyday practices, the limbo and isolation (characterizing the life of asylum seekers) are reshaped in inclusion paths. This daily process of policy-making is constantly at risk ‐ in Italy, indeed, good practices of inclusion represent a battlefield criss-crossed by dilemmas.
{"title":"Reshaping ‘time of limbo’ and ‘remoteness’: Everyday practices of reception of asylum seekers in Alpine municipalities in Italy","authors":"E. Giacomelli, Orlando De Gregorio","doi":"10.1386/cjmc_00045_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00045_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the experiences of widespread reception of asylum seekers and refugees carried out in some Italian Alpine localities, specifically in Valsugana in Trentino and Val di Susa in Piemonte, in the west and in the east of northern Italy. We focus on the description\u0000 of these two case studies and their relation with the frame of national policies on migration in Italy. What were the main characteristics of these two case studies? How do these local policies interact with the fragmentation, the inconsistency and the emergency-based approach of Italian national\u0000 immigration policies? This research subsumes and aims to move beyond the questions raised above, focusing on the points of view and narratives of social workers, project managers and reception workers (operatore dell’accoglienza). These actors often describe the implementation\u0000 process as a process of policy-making. In conclusion, these case studies highlight that in Italy good practices of reception represent a field where there are coordinations, tensions and conflicts between national and local levels. Indeed, in everyday practices, the limbo and isolation (characterizing\u0000 the life of asylum seekers) are reshaped in inclusion paths. This daily process of policy-making is constantly at risk ‐ in Italy, indeed, good practices of inclusion represent a battlefield criss-crossed by dilemmas.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45757603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
At the turn of the twenty-first century, memory was a recurrent theme in French songs about North Africa. This painted the region as a place of the colonial past, diminishing its current relevance to France by occulting immigrant perspectives. In the early 2000s, ‘Adieu mon pays’, Enrico Macias’s 1962 song about a departure from Algeria upon its independence, continued to be the exemplar of the song about North Africa. However, songs from the 1990s by North African artists show different views on remembering the region. The dynamics of French and Arabic in songs by Rachid Taha and Khaled indicate that an underlying malaise with remembering North Africa can manifest in a disconnection between two perspectives rooted in two different languages, and Faudel’s 2006 song ‘Mon pays’ shows the limits of memory as a mode of engagement with the lands of origin for second-generation immigrants. Although we may not extrapolate historical claims from the surge of North African memories as a theme in French music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the context of the time can help us interpret lyrics about the region in song from this period.
{"title":"Remembering North Africa in French popular music at the turn of the twenty-first century","authors":"Ziad Bentahar","doi":"10.1386/cjmc_00043_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00043_1","url":null,"abstract":"At the turn of the twenty-first century, memory was a recurrent theme in French songs about North Africa. This painted the region as a place of the colonial past, diminishing its current relevance to France by occulting immigrant perspectives. In the early 2000s, ‘Adieu mon pays’,\u0000 Enrico Macias’s 1962 song about a departure from Algeria upon its independence, continued to be the exemplar of the song about North Africa. However, songs from the 1990s by North African artists show different views on remembering the region. The dynamics of French and Arabic in songs\u0000 by Rachid Taha and Khaled indicate that an underlying malaise with remembering North Africa can manifest in a disconnection between two perspectives rooted in two different languages, and Faudel’s 2006 song ‘Mon pays’ shows the limits of memory as a mode of engagement with\u0000 the lands of origin for second-generation immigrants. Although we may not extrapolate historical claims from the surge of North African memories as a theme in French music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the context of the time can help us interpret lyrics about the\u0000 region in song from this period.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48729261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the lives of Burmese Indians ‐ Indian minorities that had migrated to and subsequently settled in Colonial Burma but later repatriated or fled Burma between the 1930s and 1960s. The stories of Burmese Indians who once made up a noticeable minority in Burma are conspicuously under-represented from historical records of both India and Burma today. Due to this silencing, these stories have receded to the periphery of public memory and now survive as grandparents’ tales of immigration and folk memories. Furthermore, the invisibilization of these stories from the Burmese memory-scape has created a peculiar situation wherein not only is the Burmese Indians’ exodus disembedded from Burma’s wider history but the current ethnic tensions, particularly the violence against the Rohingya Muslims, is perceived as delinked from any anti-India rhetoric of the past. This article attempts to weave the Burmese Indians’ exodus into the larger historical trajectory of the state and read the Rohingya Muslims’ exodus as another illustration of Burma’s haunting legacy of dealing with the ethnically different ‘other’.
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Review of: La Cocina De Las Patronas, Javier García (dir.) (2016)Mexico: Sacbé Producciones
评论:La Cocina De Las Patronas, Javier garcia(编辑)(2016)墨西哥:sacbe Producciones
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Through an in-depth ethnographic exploration of the experiences of three unaccompanied, undocumented boys recently arrived and living on the streets in Athens, this research sheds light on the ways in which placemaking and displacement are inextricably linked. Engaging with the question of ‘to what extent is placemaking present in the lived realities of recently arrived minors?’ the article exemplifies the ways in which people, even in the toughest circumstances, can eventually begin to connect to new locales. Yet, simultaneously, it also highlights the stark difficulty and absences of place connections that displaced populations experience in migration. Placemaking and the role of place, although fundamental in displacement experiences, is not necessarily tied into the priorities and planning of governments and aid organizations. Taking it into consideration for future displaced populations is of great importance.
{"title":"Precarious placemaking amongst unaccompanied refugee minors: Three stories of connection and disconnection in Athens, Greece","authors":"Michaela Korodimou","doi":"10.1386/cjmc_00046_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00046_1","url":null,"abstract":"Through an in-depth ethnographic exploration of the experiences of three unaccompanied, undocumented boys recently arrived and living on the streets in Athens, this research sheds light on the ways in which placemaking and displacement are inextricably linked. Engaging with the question\u0000 of ‘to what extent is placemaking present in the lived realities of recently arrived minors?’ the article exemplifies the ways in which people, even in the toughest circumstances, can eventually begin to connect to new locales. Yet, simultaneously, it also highlights the stark\u0000 difficulty and absences of place connections that displaced populations experience in migration. Placemaking and the role of place, although fundamental in displacement experiences, is not necessarily tied into the priorities and planning of governments and aid organizations. Taking it into\u0000 consideration for future displaced populations is of great importance.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47784912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Following the year 2002, Indonesian migrant domestic workers (IDWs) gradually transform the generic perception that they are merely physical workers. They have attracted a different form of attention as they began to publish novels, short stories, poetry anthologies and non-fiction writings. In this paper, two books on IDW ‐ namely, Susanti’s Tentang Sedih di Victoria Park (‘About sadness in Victoria Park’) and Sorrita’s Penari Naga Kecil (‘The little dragon dancer’) ‐ are examined and analysed to further explore the subtext underlying the stories. I argue that IDWs’ narratives offer an alternate narrative that indicates IDWs fighting back on the imposed stereotypes underlining the importance of migrant voice. Both books provide insights into IDWs’ lives in Hong Kong, which illustrate IDWs’ migrant experience.
自2002年以来，印度尼西亚的移徙家庭佣工(idw)逐渐改变了他们仅仅是体力劳动者的普遍看法。随着他们开始出版小说、短篇小说、诗歌选集和非虚构作品，他们吸引了另一种形式的关注。在本文中，两本关于IDW的书——即Susanti的《关于维多利亚公园的悲伤》和Sorrita的《The little dragon dancer》——被研究和分析，以进一步探索故事背后的潜台词。我认为，idw的叙述提供了另一种叙述，表明idw对强调移民声音重要性的强加刻板印象进行了反击。两本书都提供了对idw在香港生活的洞察，说明了idw的移民经历。
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In general, xenophobia refers to fear or hatred of the ‘stranger’ and it is recognized as a multivocal term, largely overlapped with ethnocentrism, racism, nationalism, extremism or nativism. In this article, I show that it still has layers of meaning to be explored. Based on thirteen mixed interviews (semi-structured and in-depth) conducted in the city of Lima (Peru), in this work I argue that there is a stratum in the meaning of xenophobia that has not been explored in the academic literature: the overlapping of gender (both male and female) with the rejection of immigrants (in this case, Venezuelan immigrants in Lima), which I propose to call genosphobia. After describing the serendipitous discovery of this meaning stratum, I carry out an analysis of the cultural logic of xenophobia and a ‘thick’ description of the meaning construction of this phenomenon. The analysis leads to show the articulation of a ‘cultural libel’ by those who openly reject the immigrants, which in turn leads to an assimilationist mode of incorporation to the detriment of a lively multiculturalism.
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