Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi . Americanah. 2014.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977-) is a Nigerian author of novels, short stories and nonfiction. She graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University in 2001 and completed a master’s degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. She has won several prizes over the years, such as British Book Award’s Author of the Year, and Kasseler Burgerpreis “Prism of Reason” Award. Her debut novel Purple Hibiscus (2003) was highly praised as well as Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). In 2014 Adichie published Americanah, a novel about race and cross-continental relationships and an exploration of being African in America. In Dear Ijeawele Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions (2017), the best-selling author shines light on gender issues, feminism and equality.
Ali, Monica. In the Kitchen. 2009.
Monica Ali is lauded by the critique as one of the best young novelists in Britain. She comes from two different ethnic backgrounds, as her parents are English and Bangladeshi. Her debut novel was Brick Lane (2003), in which a Bangladeshi family embodies the immigrant experience, and which was recreated in the big screen in 2007. Her following novels, Antelejo Blue and In the Kitchen, were published in 2006 and 2009 respectively. Her latest novel, Untold Story, was published almost a decade ago, in 2011.
Anaya, Rudolfo. The Sorrows of Young Alfonso. 2016.
Rudolfo Anaya is an eclectic writer whose interests covered different types of novels, plays and children’s books. Anaya was concerned about human conditions and was keystone in Chicano culture and literature. Among his publications, it can be highlighted his first novel Bless Me, Ultima (1972) and the last one, The Sorrows of Young Alfonso (2016).
Aw, Tash. Five Star Billionaire. 2013
Tash Aw was born in Taiwan but raised in Malasya. He moved to England where he completed his education. There, he studied in Cambridge, Warwick and worked as a lawyer. After having studied Creative Writing in the University of East Anglia, Aw published his first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory in 2005, and The Face: Strangers on a Pier in 2016, a narration in which modern Asia is explored through the author’s own experiences of migration and adaptation with his family. In 2013, he won the O. Henry Prize with Sail, a short-fiction piece.
Bakalar, A. M. Madame Mephisto: A Novel. 2012.
A.M. Bakalar is a Polish writer graduated inEnglish Literature. She has lived in several countries, such as Sicily, Canada, Germany, and France. Her main interests are postcolonial and contemporary Nigerian, Zimbawean, and Polish literature. Among his writings, Bakalar wrote Madame Mephisto (2012) and Children of Our Age (2017). In the latter, whose protagonists are a family of Polish immigrants in Britain, the author exposes the contrast between a Polish past and a British future, and the transformations they suffer as individuals.
Binchy, Chris. Open Handed. 2008.
Chris Binchy is an Irish novelist who studied English and Spanish at University College Dublin and later graduated from the Master’s course in creative writing at Trinity College Dublin. His debut novel was The Very Man in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Sunday Independent Irish Novel of the Year award. This novel was followed by People Like Us (2004). In 2008 he published his breakthrough Open-handed, in which is a portray of the present-day Dublin and of the story of some characters who get involved in a web of politics, property, sex and violence. Two years later, Binchy wrote his last novel, Five Days Apart (2010) which plot unfolds themes of social isolation, workplace politics and romantic triangles.
Bissoondah, Neil. Postcards from Hell. 2009.
Blasim, Hassan. The Madman of Freedom Square. 2009
—, ed. Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century after the Invasion. 2016.
Bolger, Dermot. Tanglewood. 2015.
Cao, Lan. The Lotus and the Storm. 2014.
Cole, Teju. Open City: A Novel. 2012.
Courtney, Polly. Poles Apart. 2008.
Dimbo, Ifedinma. She Was Foolish? 2012.
Enright, Anne. The Green Road. 2015.
Evaristo, Bernardine. Girl, Woman, Other. 2019.
Fontes, Patrick. Maria’s Purgatorio. 2016.
Gee, Maggie. The Driver. 2009.
Maggie Gee (1948-) is an acclaimed British postmodern novelist and professor of creative writing, currently leading the Bath Spa’s Empathy and Writing research group. Her educational background includes two degrees in English by the Sommerville College, Oxford. Her debut novel was an experimental black comedy entitled Dying, in Other Words published in 1981. A year later, Gee was one of the selected women on the Granta 20 Best of Young British Novelists. Her latest novel Blood (2019) is a Gothic black comedy set in the Brexit Britain in which Gee invites the reader to reflect on meaningful questions about contemporary life. Recently, she has participated in the writing of May Hobbs (2017), a story dealing with the real-life night cleaners’ strike.
Gunaratne, Guy. In Our Mad and Furious City. 2018
Guy Gunaratnet (1984-) is a London-based journalist, filmmaker and writer whose first novel In Our Mad and Furious City (2018) won several prizes, such as the International Dylan Thomas award for writers, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. This novel is inspired by a real murder case of a British soldier. It depicts a frenzied modern present- day London and the disparities underneath the image of a prosperous place. Though he is based in London, where he studied current affairs journalism in the City, University of London, Gunaratnet travels worldwide to post-conflict areas.
Haddad, Saleem. Guapa. 2016.
Saleem Haddad (1983-) is an author born in Kuwait City currently living in London where he combines his career as a writer with aid works with Médecins Sans Frontières and other international organizations. His first novel Guapa (2016), which was awarded a Stonewall Book Award, is a queer novel that focuses on both the political and personal affairs of ayoung homosexual man living in an unknown Arab place through the Arab Spring in 2011 and his process of rediscovering his real identity.
Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. 2007.
—. How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel. 2014.
—. Exist West. 2017
Mohsin Hamid (1971-), a British Pakistani author, is considered one of the most talented writers of his generation. His writings have been translated into more than 30 languages. The political thriller, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), made into a movie in 2012, recounts the story of the live of a Pakistani immigrant in America, his love affair with an American woman and his abandonment of the country. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and received several awards such as the Asian American Literary Award. Other of his bestselling books were Moth Smoke (2000), How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2014) and Exit West (2017) in which he explores the struggles of refugees and emigration. In all his works Hamid deals with the themes of ethnic identity, class disparity and mass urbanization.
Hamilton, Hugo. Hand in the Fire. 2010.
—. Dublin Palms. 2019
Hugo Hamilton (1953-) is an Irish writer of German ascendancy who also worked as a freelance journalist and in the music business. He knows Irish, English and German language, three cultures that Hamilton intertwines in his fiction. His best-selling novel The Speckled People (2003) is a German-Irish memoir while The Last Shot (1991) is set in the final days of the Nazi Regime and of the Second World War. In his more recent works, Hamilton explores, in the form of a memoir, the modern Ireland as in Dublin Palms (2019) and meditates on the issue of identity and the sense of belonging.
Hobbs, Will. Crossing The Wire. 2007
Will Hobbs (1947-) is an American award-winning author living in Durango, Colorado. He graduated by the Stanford University and is a former language arts teacher. He has written over 20 novels for young readers of which seven of them have been chosen by the American Library Association as Best Books for Young Adults of the 20th century. Novels such as Downriver (1991) and Crossing The Wire (2007) can be highlighted among his greatest productions. Both stories have fifteen-year-old boys as the main characters. The former deals with the whitewater adventures of a group of teenagers through the Grand Canyon whereas the latter portrays the story of a fifteen-year old boy who heads north in an attempt to cross from Mexico to the United States to find a job and send money to his family. His last novel, City of Gold (2020) is a historical western fiction that narrates the adventures of a farmer family in the real Wild West.
Huerta, Javier O. American Copia: An Immigrant Epic. 2012.
Javier O. Huerta (1973-) is a Mexican-American and Chicano poet born in Tamaulipas, Mexico who later immigrated to Houston, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at El Paso, where he graduated in the bilingual MFA program and is currently teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. For Huerta, the immigration and bicultural experience are pivotal topics in his writing as it can be observed in his first collection, entitled Some Clarifications y Otros Poemas (2007), which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from the University of California, Irvine, and in more recent works such as American Copia: an Immigrant Epic (2012).
Khair,Tabish. How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position. 2012.
—. Just another jihadi jane. 2016.
—. Night of Happiness. 2018.
Tabish Khair (1966-) is a contemporary Indian-English writer and academic political commentator born in Gaya, India and currently based in Denmark. His creative narrative includes novels and poetry collections for which he has won several prizes including the First Prize in All India Poetry Prize, awarded by the Poetry Society and the British Council in 1995. In works such as How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2012), Just Another Jihadi Jane (2016) and Night of Happiness (2018) Khair writes about racism, the misunderstanding of poor and rich, and the identity of minority groups such as Muslims in Denmark.
Lewycka, Marina. Two Caravans. 2007.
Marina Lewycka (1946-) is a Ukrainian and British novelist currently living in England. She attended Keele University and worked as a lecturer in Media Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Lewycka’s debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (2005) received the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. Her second novel, Two Caravans (2007), was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing. This story portrays the Eastern Europeans as it follows the lives of characters who are legal and illegal migrant workers in the agricultural industry in England.
Martínez, Demetria. The Block Captain’s Daughter. 2012.
—. Mother Tongue. 2010.
Demetria Martínez (1960-) is a poet, novelist and a committed social activist born in Albuquerque. After finishing her studies, she worked as a journalist at the Albuquerque Journal and in the National Catholic Reporter. She graduated from Princeton University and she is currently involved with immigrant’s right issues and teaches in the annual June workshop writing for social change. In her works, she combines the themes of gender, religion and ethnicity as it can be observed in her first novel Mother Tongue published in 2010 which won the Western States Book Award and in The Block Captain’s Daugther (2012).
Mehmood, Tariq. You’re Not Proper. 2015
—. Song of Gulzarina. 2016
Tariq Mehmood (1956-) is an award-winning author and film-maker who was born in Pakistan and grew up in Bradford, UK. He is currently teaching at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. His novels deal with the topics of migration, war, identity, longing, love and loss. Among his works, we can highlight Hand On The Sun (1983), While There Is Light (2004), which focus on the experience of Asian in Britain, and You’re Not Proper (2015) the winner of the Francis Lincoln award for children’s fiction. In the latter as well as in Song of Gulzarina (2016), Mahmood brings to light the themes of identity and religion, class and politics affecting young people today in the UK. Regarding his film production, the multi-award-winning Injustice (2001) should be highlighted which brings light into the unacceptable number of deaths in British police custody. In 2020 he released its follow-on Ultraviolence continuing the same theme as in Injustice showing a corrupt system failing UK citizens.
Mun, Nami. Miles from Nowhere. 2009.
Nami Mun (1968-) is an Korean American writer of novels and short stories. She was born in Seoul in South Korea and raised in the Bronx. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley as well as from the University of Michigan. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern University. Mun wrote Miles from Nowhere in 2009, a story that focuses on the live of a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx and exposes her life difficulties and which received several awards like a Whiting Award and a Pushcart Prize.
Naqvi, H. M. Home Boy. (2010) 2011
M. Naqvi (1974-) is a novelist born in London and based in Karachi, Pakistan. He graduated from Georgetown University with degrees in economics and English literature. He won the Phelam Prize for poetry. His debut novel, Home Boy(2010) achieved commercial success and recognition. The story unfolds in New York after the 9/11 attacks when three Pakistani men experience the limitation of their power to define their identities after the terrorist attack.
Rowlatt, Bee and Witwit, May. Taking About Jane Austen in Baghdad. 2010.
May Witwit is an Iraqi academic expert in Jane Austen, Chaucer and other aspects of English Literature. Bee Rowlatt is a British writer and BBC World Service journalist. Witwit is particularly interested in the representation of Arab women in The British press. Together, in 2010, they cowrite the best-selling novel Taking About Jane Austen in Baghdad, the plot unravels the lives of two women who share their fears, joys and sadness and who plan the escape of May from the bombings and war in Baghdad. Rowlatt then published her second book in 2017, In Search of Mary: The Mother of all Journeys, inspired by the life of Mary Wollstonecraft and her treasure hunt across Europe in the 17th century.
Sahota, Sunjeev, The Year of the Runaways. 2016.
—. China Room. 2021
Sunjeev Sahota is a British novelist whose Indian origins have inspired his work after reading Salman Rushdie’s Midnight Children. His debut novel was Ours Are the Streets and it was followed by the awarded with a European Union Prize for Literature The Year of the Runaways, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Sahota’s last novel China Room published in 2021. Just as the two previous ones, China Room deals with the sense of belonging and identity in characters connected to India.
Salvador Treviño, Jesús. Return to Arroyo Grande. 2015.
Jesús Salvador Treviño is an award-winning American director of Mexican descent. His firs contact with filmmaking was as a student, when he started documenting the Chicano Movement. Over the course of his career, Raíces de Sangre (1979), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999), Voyager (1995-2001), Bones (2005), and Prison Break (2005) are among the multiple series and films directed by him. Furthermore, Salvador Treviño is also the writer of three collections of short stories The Fabulous Sinkhole and Other Stories (1995), The Skyscrapper that Flew (2005), and Return to Arroyo Grande (2015). Part of his most recent work includes collaboration with the website Latinopia, to which he has donated unedited interviews in order to complete this space of Latino Arts, History, Music, Literature, Cooking, and Cinema.
Shamsie, Kamila. Burnt Shadows. 2009.
—. Home Fire. 2017
Kamila Shamsie is an awarded Pakistani and British novelist. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Hamilton College in Clinton, where she has also taught Creative Writing. Shamsie also has a MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Moreover, she also writes articles for The Guardian, The New Statesman, Index on Censorship and Prospect magazine. Her first novel was In the City by the Sea, which won the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature in Pakistan and was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her second novel, Salt and Saffron, allowed her to become part of the Orange’s list of ’21 Writers for the 21st Century. Her novel Burnt Shadows was published in 2009, making her the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction. The last novel she wrote is Home Fire, in which as in all her previous ones, she portrays Muslim people difficulties and deals with Pakistani identity.
O’Brien, Edna. The Little Red Chairs. 2016.
—. Girl. 2019
Edna O’Brien is an Irish novelist, playwright, and short-story writer whose work deals with the portrayal of women in contemporary society usually in an Irish location. This is the main topic in The Little Red Chairs, in which a woman in rural Ireland has an affair with war criminal who is hiding. Through this character, O’Brien also explores the experience of immigration in Ireland and how it is perceived by Irish natives. In 2019, the author published Girl, her last novel. Its plot was inspired by the kidnapping of Chibok schoolgirls by members of Boko Hara. Although O’Brien does not focus on Ireland in this novel, she keeps focusing on women and the emotions of those girls, something which she does by narrating the story through the voice of a fictional victim.
O’Donnell, Mary. Where They Lie. 2014.
Mary O’Donnell is an Irish novelist, poet, and journalist. She studied German and Philosophy at National University of Ireland. O’Donnell’s work has a key role in the expanding horizons of the traditionally male-dominated literary space in Ireland. In Where They Lie, someone calls Gerda to tell her they have information about the bodies of two disappeared brothers in Ireland. The novel deals with religion, depression, traumatic experiences and how they are feced. O’Donnell an award-winning author who has received a Hennessy Literature Award, an Allingham Award, and several prizes from the Fish International Short Story Competition and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition.
O’Donnoghue, Domhnall. Colin and the Concubine. 2019.
—. Crazy for You. 2020.
Domhnall O’Donnoghue is an Irish former actor who now works as a journalist and as an author. In his novel Colin and the Concubine, the main character Colin is always annoyed by his brother. He decides to participate in the Housewife of the Year competition, so he has to look for a wife. Colin thinks about his neighbour Azra, a Turkish concubine, and the cultural shock between both explores Irish and Turkish identities.
O’Malley, Sheila. Chicano. 2014.
Sheila O’Malley is an author living in Aspen who has a BA of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she also studied International Relations and Spanish. Her novel Chicano tells the story of a young boy who starts the journey of his life from his home in Mexico to San Pedro River, through the Arizona desert, and to Colorado. Finally, he comes back to his home city. This is not only a physical journey, but a spiritual one in which he becomes Chicano. The author combines two languages and two cultures while she explores their relationship.
Ryan, Donal. From a Low and Quiet Sea. 2018
Toporov, Yusuf. Jihadi. A Love Story. 2015
Vassanji, M. G. The Magi of Saida. 2013.
V.V.A.A. Dublin: Ten Journeys, One Destination. 2010.
—. Refugee Tales I. 2016
—. Refugee Tales II. 2017
—. Refugee Tales III. 2019
Waldman, Amy. The Submission. 2011.
Wassell, Elizabeth. Sustenance. 2011.
Yassin-Kassab, Robin. The Road from Damascus. 2009.
Amrith, Sunil S. Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia. Cambridge University Press, 2011. assets.cambridge.org/97805218/98355/frontmatter/9780521898355_frontmatter.pdf
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Bueltmann, Tanja, and Donald M. MacRaild, ‘‘The English diaspora in North America: Migration, ethnicity and association, 1730s-1950s’’. (Manchester, 2017; online edn, Manchester Scholarship Online, 18 May 2017) https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526103710.001.0001
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Hunter, Ross. “Holyrood unanimously welcomes move to strengthen Scottish diaspora’’. The National. May 23, 2023
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Leckie, Jacqueline, Angela McCarthy, and Angela Wanhalla (eds). Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters in Asia and the Pacific, Routledge, 2020.
Migrant-migrant or migrant-host encounters – bringing together studies from a variety of perspectives on cross-cultural encounters, their past, and their resonances across the contemporary Asia-Pacific region.
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Moreno, Marisel. “Literary Representations of Migration.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 23. Oxford University Press, 2019.
The focus of the article: migration as a unifying condition from which Latino/a identities have emerged as well as Caribbean identities. Reviews these facts from 1900 until the present day.
Keywords: Latin American and Caribbean Literature, North American Literature.
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Nair, Tushar. “Exploring the Rise of Indian Diasporic Writing in English.” Transatlantic Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, vol. 2, no. 4, 2020.
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Nguyen, Anh Khoi. ‘‘What an exhibition by artists of the Vietnamese diaspora says about Home and belonging’’. The Conversation. May 16, 2023.
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Ortega, N. G., and A. B. Martínez García. Representing 21st Century Migration in Europe. Berghahn Books, 2022.
Author does research on ‘‘Narrativas testimoniales de migrantes y refugiados’’, which falls within the objectives of the Nemicatid project.
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Pokorn, Nike. (2023). ‘‘Translation and diaspora: The role of English literary translations in Slovene émigré periodicals in the US’’. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies. vol. 35, 161, 2023.
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Rastas, Anna & Nikunen, Kaarina. (2019). ‘‘Introduction: Contemporary African and Black Diasporic Spaces in Europe’’. Open Cultural Studies 3. 207-218. 10.1515/culture-2019-0019.
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Ratha, Dilip; Plaza, Sonia. ‘‘Diaspora for Development in Africa’’. World Bank, 2011.
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Rolle Sands, S., Ingraham, K. & Salami, B.O. “Caribbean nurse migration—a scoping review.” Human Resources for Health, no. 18, 2020.
Useful bibliography about the migration of Caribbean nurses, particularly to developed countries such as Canada, the US and the UK. Much of the literature present in this study originated in the US.
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Sen, Ayse. ‘‘Turkish Migration Literature in the UK’’. Seminar paper, 2022.
It presents and analyses Turkish Literature in English, mainly exploring the topic of Turkish migration to the UK. First, the migration background of Turkish immigrants in the United Kingdom will be analysed in contrast to the third and the second generation to show differences between second and third-generation migrants and whether it is a way of assimilation.
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Tenorio, Rich. “Massive history book charts how the Jewish Diaspora reached all corners of the globe’’. The Times of Israel. Subtitle: ‘‘In the 1,200-page fifth installment of the Posen Library series, Prof. Yosef Kaplan gives a thorough and colorful look at Jews’ cultural and geographical expansion from 1500-1750’’. May 26, 2023.
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Zipp, Lena. “World Englishes, Migration, and Diaspora.” The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes, edited by Daniel Schreier et al., Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 120–142.
● News Article in The Conversation. Title: ‘‘Divided Indian diaspora in Australia tops concerns for Narendra Modi visit’’. Story by: Ian Hall. Date: May 23rd. Available at: https://theconversation.com/divided-indian-diaspora-in-australia-tops-concerns-for-na
rendra-modi-visit-205993.
● News Article in The Greek Reporter. Title: ‘‘The Greek Diaspora Votes in 35 Countries for the Election’’. Story by: Tasos Kokkinidis. Date: May 20th. Link: https://greekreporter.com/2023/05/20/greek-election-diaspora-vote/.
● News Article in Viva.com. Title: ‘‘Ministry Builds Indonesian Business Restaurant in Foreign Countries’’. Story by: Arianti Widya. Date: May 25th. Available at: https://www.viva.co.id/english/1603125-ministry-builds-indonesian-business-restaura
nt-in-foreign-countries.
● News Article in Ena.com. Title: ‘‘Ethiopians in Diaspora Believe in New Prime Minister’’. Story by: Addis Ababa. Date: May 7th, 2018. Available at: https://www.ena.et/web/eng/w/en_234.
Transculturalism (multiculturalism and interculturalism)
Dan, Horațiu Sorin. “The Role of Interculturalism in European Integration.” Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, no. 2/2014, pp. 7-20. https://www.academia.edu/11533798/The_Role_of_Interculturalism_in_European_Integration.
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Elias, Amanuel & Fethi Mansouri (2020) A Systematic Review of Studies on Interculturalism and Intercultural Dialogue, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 41:4, 490-523, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2020.1782861. Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2020.1782861.
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Grishaeva, Elena B. ‘‘Multiculturalism as a Central Concept of Multiethnic and Polycultural Society Studies’’. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, vol. 7, no. 5, 2012, pp. 916-922. Link to the PDF: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/38634375.pdf.
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Nasar Meer & Tariq Modood (2012) How does Interculturalism Contrast with Multiculturalism?, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 33:2, 175-196, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2011.618266. Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2011.618266?src=recsys.
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Sten Pultz Moslund. ‘‘Migration Literature and Hybridity: The Different Speeds of Transcultural Change’’. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 272 p. ISBN (hb): 9780230251465. Link: https://journals.openedition.org/ces/7897.
Description: a well-researched, and sophisticated response to the celebratory rhetoric that has characterized much postcolonial writing about issues of hybridity and transnational mobility.
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Verkuyten, M, Yogeeswaran, K, Mepham, K, Sprong, S. ‘‘Interculturalism: A new diversity ideology with interrelated components of dialogue, unity, and identity flexibility’’. Eur J Soc Psychol. 2020; 50: 505– 519. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2628.
Useful bibliography. This was published in the European Journal of Social Psychology.
● News article in the Daily Mail Online. Title: ‘‘Multiculturalism and identity politics is a ‘recipe for communal disaster’ warns Suella Braverman as Home Secretary defiantly says the UK should not be afraid of its own ‘Britishness’’. Author: Ryan Hooper. Date: May 15th. Link to the article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12086917/Multiculturalism-identity-politics-recipe-communal-disaster-warns-Suella-Braverman.html.
● News Article in The Portugal News. Title: Islamic Fair promoting multiculturalism. Subtitle: The town of Mértola, in the Beja district, is predicted to receive about 60,000 visitors for the 12th Islamic Fair, which returns today for four days to promote
“dialogue, tolerance and citizenship between cultures’’. Author: TPN/Lusa. Date: May 18th. Link to the article:
https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2023-05-18/islamic-fair-promoting-multiculturalism/77750.
● News Article in the BBC. Title: The desi landlords helping to reshape British pub culture. Author: Vanessa Pearce. Date: May 14th. Link to the article: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-65532039.amp.
● News Article in Dublin Live. Title: Over 1,000 people attend festival celebrating Dublin’s vibrant multiculturalism. Subtitle: People from over 50 different nationalities came together to celebrate Dublin’s diverse communities in a funfilled Sunday afternoon. Author: Aakanksha Surve. Date: May 18th. Link to the article: https://www.dublinlive.ie/whats-on/family-kids-news/over-1000-people-attend-festival-26938272.
● News Article in The Guyana Chronicle. Title: A Model of Multiculturalism. Author: unspecified. Date: May 10th. Link to the article:
https://guyanachronicle.com/2023/05/10/a-model-of-multiculturalism/.
● News Article in WCBE (broadcast service of Columbus City Schools). Title: Ohio legislators propose very different versions of new social studies standards. Author: Karen Kasler. Date: May 17th. This article can be read or listened to since WCBE is a
broadcast service. Link to the article: https://www.wcbe.org/wcbe-news/2023-05-17/ohio-legislators-propose-very-different-versions-of-new-social-studies-standards.
● News Article in The Conversation. Title: ‘‘Celebrating diversity isn’t enough: Schools need anti-racist curriculum’’. Author: Rola Koubeissy. Date: July 20th 2020. Link to the article: https://theconversation.com/celebrating-diversity-isnt-enough-schools-need-anti-racist-curriculum-140424.
This is about how schools use a multicultural and/or interculturalapproach that is still ineffective while dealing with bigotry and racism.
● Online training guide by The Council of Europe. Title: Intercultural City step-by-step. Composed of 6 modules, the last one being the conclusions achieved after taking the course. The course is defined as ‘‘a tool for assisting cities in implementing the
intercultural integration mode’’. Link to the full course: https://www.coe.int/en/web/interculturalcities/icc-step-by-step-course#{%22121998947%22:[0]}. This course shows the importance of integration and interculturalism (insofar as the EU has courses about it).
Postcolonial Studies
● Postcolonial Studies, an online journal of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne.
Description: an exploration of the colonial encounter and the variety of ways in which colonial relations and processes shaped and continue to shape the global world order. Link to the editorial board: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=cpcs20. Accessible in Taylor & Francis Online; link: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cpcs20.
● News article from the Parisian newspaper Le Monde. Title: ‘‘Anti-wokeism is infinitely more threatening than wokeism, which it claims to combat’’. Subtitle: ‘‘Faced with an extreme right-led campaign against ‘wokeism,’ gender studies and postcolonial studies, a group of French academics argue that these attacks are deeply anti-democratic’’. Date of publication: May 3rd 2023. Link to article: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/05/03/anti-wokeism-is-infinitely-more-threatening-than-wokeism-which-it-claims-to-combat_6025273_23.html.
● News article in the international online newspaper, Global Voices. Title: ‘‘Why don’t global south postcolonial countries associate themselves with post-Soviet countries of Eastern Europe?’’. Subtitle: ‘‘Russia’s invasion should be understood as bothnationalist and imperialist’’. Written by the Global Voices division of Central & East Europe. Date of publication: May 4th 2023. Link to article:
https://globalvoices.org/2023/05/04/why-dont-global-south-postcolonial-countries-associate-themselves-with-post-soviet-countries-of-eastern-europe/.
● Research group: The Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne (IPCS).
Description: an independent public educational project. They interrogate colonial relations and their consequences in the past, present and future in Australia and globally. Contact; TEL: 03 99586704. E-mail: info@ipcs.org.au. Home to the internationally renowned scholarly journal, Postcolonial Studies.
Migratory Cartographies
● ‘‘Cartographies of migration and mobility as levers of deferral policies’’ By Elsa C. Gomis (Department of Politics and International Relations, University Department in Oxford). Published in 2022 in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
Brief Description: This article questions the rhetoric of objectivity attached to cartographies of migration and their relationship to a contemporary political context. E-mail of Elsa Gomis: elsa.gomis@politics.ox.ac.uk. Where to find the PDF with the article:
https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83924/1/Gomis_2022_Convergence.pdf.
DOI: 10.1177/13548565221079788.
● ‘‘Counter Cartographies of Exile: From France to Afghanistan’’; published in Nonatlas.org (author unknown). Map created by ‘‘H.S’’, who was seeking asylum in France. Access to the PDF: https://notanatlas.org/maps/counter-cartographies-exile/?pdf=1201.
● Henk van Houtum & Rodrigo Bueno Lacy (2020) ‘‘The migration map trap. On the invasion arrows in the cartography of migration’’, Mobilities, 15:2, 196-219, DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1676031. Defined as ‘‘an iconological dissection of what
could be seen as the epitome of the cartography on undocumented migration, the map made by Frontex – the EU’s border agency’’. Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2019.1676031.
● Casas-Cortes, Maribel & Cobarrubias, Sebastian & Heller, C. & Pezzani, Lorenzo. (2017). ‘‘Clashing cartographies, migrating maps: Mapping and the politics of mobility at the external borders of E.Urope’’. ACME. 16. 1-33. Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319423373_Clashing_cartographies_migrating_maps_Mapping_and_the_politics_of_mobility_at_the_external_borders_of_EUrope.
●Golovina, Daria. “Lithuania’s Population: Natural and Migratory Components”. LinkedIn, 10 May 2022, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lithuanias-population-so-where-we-going-daria-golovina
● Lo Presti, Laura. (2019). ‘‘Terraqueous Necropolitics: Unfolding the low- operational, Forensic, and Evocative Mapping of Mediterranean Sea Crossings in the Age of Lethal Borders’’. ACME. 18. 1347-1367. Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339079669_Terraqueous_Necropolitics_Unfolding_the_low_operational_Forensic_and_Evocative_Mapping_of_Mediterranean_Sea_Crossings_in_the_Age_of_Lethal_Borders.
● Rivera Muñoz, Monica and Bruno De Meulder. “On Mapping Mobility: Migration, Mobility and the Revitalization of the Territory: Mapping Socio Spatial Transformations in the Andes.” Unwinding the Thick Construction of the Landscape. 2010, pp. 99-116. Link:
https://www.academia.edu/101984145/Migration_Mobility_and_the_Revitalization_of_the_Territory_Mapping_Socio_Spatial_transformations_in_the_Andes.
Citizenship
● News Article on The Economic Times, India Times. Title: ‘‘Unlock your UK business dreams: Indian entrepreneurs thrive with the self-sponsorship route to British citizenship!’’ Date: May 9th, 2023. Link to Article: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/entrepreneurship/unlock-your-uk-business-dreams-indian-entrepreneurs-thrive-with-the-self-sponsorship-route-to-british-citizenship/articleshow/100094843.cms
● News Article in Microsoft Start News. Title: ‘‘Russia is forcing people in occupied Ukraine to change citizenship’’. Subtitle: ‘‘Ukrainians living in the occupied east are being forced to take Russian citizenship — otherwise they face deportation. Kyiv is
sending mixed signals about what its citizens should do’’. Story by: Lilia Rzheutska, and Hanna Sokolova. Date: May 5th 2023. Access to article: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/others/russia-is-forcing-people-in-occupied-ukraine-to-change-citizenship/ar-AA1aLpI9.
Inclusion/Exclusion (Integration)
● Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology – ‘‘Introduction: Literary Anthropology, Migration, and Belonging’’ by Cicilie Fagerlid & Michelle A. Tisdel. January 2020.
Description: interrogates what concepts including “minor literature,” “minority,” dialogue, hybridisation, and historicity mean for the interplay between literature and reality. Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-34796-3_1
● Bottero, M. “Integration (of Immigrants) in the European Courts’ Jurisprudence: Supporting a Pluralist and Rights-Based Paradigm?” Journal of Migration & Integration (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-023-01027-7.
Description: This article reflects on the model of integration resulting from the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights and questions the capacity of the two courts to advance a pluralist and rights-based paradigm of integration.
Cultural Conflicts
● News Article in Thisdaylive.com. Title: ‘‘Conflict in Sudan: Lessons for Nigeria’’. Date: 18th May 2023. Link to the article:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/05/17/conflict-in-sudan-lessons-for-nigeria/.
● News Article. Title: ‘‘How Turkey’s President Is Weaponizing Culture’’. Subtitle: ‘‘Known for persecuting artists and cultural figures, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government is being accused of “artwashing” ahead of critical elections’’. Story by: Jennifer Hattam. Date: 8th May 2023. Link to the article: https://hyperallergic.com/820516/how-turkey-president-erdogan-is-weaponizing-culture/.
● News Article. Title: ‘‘Christians Targeted in Bloody Ethnic Conflict in India’s Manipur State’’. Subtitle: ‘‘An estimated 160 people have died since the violence erupted in the northeastern Indian state on May 3’’. Story by: Anto Akkara. Date: 17th May 2023. Link to the article: https://www.ncregister.com/news/christians-targeted-in-bloody-ethnic-conflict-in-india-s-manipur-state. Published in National Catholic Register.
● Article in Harvard Business Review. Title: ‘‘Research: How Cultural Differences Can Impact Global Teams’’. By: Vasyl Taras, Dan Baack, Dan Caprar, Alfredo Jiménez, and Fabian Froese. Date: 9th June 2021. Link to the research: https://hbr.org/2021/06/research-how-cultural-differences-can-impact-global-teams.
● Article in BeyondIntractability.org. LeBaron, Michelle. “Culture and Conflict.” Beyond Intractability. Eds. Guy Burgess and Heidi Burgess. Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado, Boulder. Date: July 2003. Link to the article: http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/culture-conflict
● Mahan, Laura N., Mahuna M. Joshua, ‘‘Bridging the Divide: Cross-Cultural Mediation’’. International Research and Review: Journal of Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars. Volume 7, Number 1. Published in Fall 2017. George Mason University – School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Link to the PDF: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1170662.pdf.
● PETERS, BENHARD, ‘‘Communal Groups and Cultural Conflict’’ (pages 205-208), in Lukas H. Meyer, Stanley L. Paulson, and Thomas W. Pogge (eds), ‘‘Rights, Culture and the Law: Themes from the Legal and Political Philosophy of Joseph Raz’’ (Oxford, 2003; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Jan. 2010), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248254.003.0012, accessed 18 May 2023. A chapter from a book of Law that could be useful to address cultural conflicts, as the title suggests.
● Senghaas, D. (2001). ‘‘The Clash within Civilisations: Coming to Terms with Cultural Conflicts’’ (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203996553. Examination of political issues such as:
➢ How do societies cope with pluralization?
➢ Can tolerance be a successful solution?
➢ What is the role of ‘culture’ in recent conflicts which have been described as culturally induced?
➢ And will twenty-first-century world politics sink into cultural conflicts on a biblical scale?
● Sharp, Elaine B., and Michael Brown, ‘‘Cultural Conflicts, Religion, and Urban Politics’’, in Peter John, Karen Mossberger, and Susan E. Clarke (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics, Oxford Handbooks (2012); online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Sept. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195367867.013.0020, accessed 18 May 2023.
A chapter from a book on culture, religion and politics that could be useful to address cultural conflicts, as the title suggests.
● Singh, Raj. (2020). ‘‘Intercultural communication and conflict resolution’’. Published on: IMPACT: International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature (IMPACT: IJRHAL) ISSN (P): 2347–4564; ISSN (E): 2321–8878
Vol. 8, Issue 7, Jul 2020, 43–50. Access online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350064024_INTERCULTURAL_COMMUNICATION_AND_CONFLICT_RESOLUTION.
● Article in the ‘Daily Blog’ of Harvard Law School. Title: ‘‘Lessons Learned from Cultural Conflicts in the Covid-19 Era’’. Subtitle: Cultural Conflicts became more common during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Through a deeper understanding of how our cultural differences evolved, we can begin to deal with intercultural conflict. Story by Katie Shonk. Published June 1st 2020. Access online: https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/conflict-resolution/cultural-conflicts-in-the-covid-19-era/.
Cultural Encounters
● Christiansen, Lene Bull, Lise Paulsen Galal & Kirsten Hvenegaard-Lassen (2017) Organised Cultural Encounters: Interculturality and Transformative Practices, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 38:6, 599-605, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2017.1386636.
Description: presents the concept of organised cultural encounters that are encounters organised to manage and/or transform problems perceived to originate in or include cultural differences.
● Amer, Mohamed. ‘‘Cultural Encounters, Cross-Cultural and Transculturation as a part of Global History’’. , University of Bologna, 2017. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.18057.95849.
Description: global history is the study of cross-cultural interactions and encounters since the history of these is very largely a matter of the processes that can gradually lead to the phenomenon of world culture. It is in effect the process of the emergence of a global cultural network.
Connected networks on Migration and Transcultural Studies:
Journal of International Migration and Integration. Description: a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes original research papers and policy discussions that enhance the understanding of immigration, settlement and integration and that contribute to policy development.
Editors-in-Chief: Thomas Geisen, Patricia Cox, Zvi Bekerman
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Movements: JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL MIGRATION AND BORDER REGIME STUDIES
The journal pursues the goal of promoting migration and border regime research that intervenes in the knowledge field of migration in a self-reflective and power-critical manner. In terms of critical social research, movements wants to contribute to developing an adequate understanding of the complex, heterogeneous and power-based realities of migration and to articulating a well-founded critique of the current forms of government of migration.
Editors: Ilker Ataç, Katherine Braun, Fabian Georgi, Sabine Hess, Juliane Karakayali, Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Kron, Simon Noori, Simona Pagano, Philipp Ratfisch, Lisa Riedner, Mathias Rodatz, Helge Schwiertz, Vassilis S. Tsianos (as of December2019).
ISSN: 2364-8732
‘‘Displacement, Emplacement, and Migration’’ — An Interdisciplinary Conference.
Organiser: Bamberg Graduate School of Literature, Culture, and Media & Chair for English Literature Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany.
Date: 24-26 June 2022.
Contact Info: Touhid Ahmed Chowdhury (chowdhury.touhid.ahmed@gmail.com).
‘‘Affectivities of Migration’’
Organiser: Dr Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE).
Contact info: shafeeq.k@manipal.edu.
Location: Manipal.
There is a section about Migration and Literature.
● CFP, ‘‘Beyond Binaries: Theoretical Approaches to Decolonization in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures of the Global South’’. Name of organization: LIT; Literature Interpretation Theory, University of Pennsylvania (Department of English). They are especially interested in work that explores:
– decolonizing nationalisms that seek to go beyond colonial binaries.
– the buried works of lesser-known nationalist leaders and intellectuals.
– the writings of those who have been typically left out of frameworks of liberation, such as women, queer and non-normative gendered and sexed subjects, and the lower castes.
– alternative utopian conceptualizations of the nation-state in literary texts
– literary visions of community that go beyond the nation-state.
– literary texts that engage in experiments of form to capture alternative visions of the postcolonial community.
Guest editor: Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, Associate Professor of English Literature,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. E-mail: mukti.l.m@rutgers.edu.
● CFP, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies. Description of the journal: publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles and interviews on literature, history, politics, and art whose focus, settings, or subjects involve colonialism and its aftermath, with an emphasis on the former British Empire. Published by the University of Florida Press. Contact e-mail: alexander.fyfe@uga.edu.
● CFP, Refractions: A Journal of Postcolonial Cultural Criticism. Title of CFP: ‘‘Carework’’ (concerning postcolonial studies, cultural media and practice, and institutions – postcolonial, anticolonial, and decolonial frames). E-mail: editors@refractionsajournalofpostcolonialculturalcriticism.com. Journal edited by Priscilla Jolly and Sadie Barker, PhD candidates and instructors in the Department of English at Concordia University, Montreal. Link to the journal: https://www.refractionsajournalofpostcolonialculturalcriticism.com/articles.
This journal specifically stood out to me in various ways (even though it is still on VOL. 1); in the case of bringing experts to a possible conference, these women are modern and fresh; possibly appealing to the young adult public.
● CFP, Annual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) University of Konstanz. Date: 18-20 May 2023. Brief description of the conference: seeks to explore this underrepresented yet essential dimension of colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial life. Conference organizers: Timo Müller, Dominik Steinhilber, Christina Wald (University of Konstanz). E-mail contact: gaps2023@uni-konstanz.de.
● CFP, the conference “Postcolonial Narrations Forum 2023: Queering Postcolonial Worlds”. Organized by the University of Bremen. Date: October 6-7, 2023.
Description: The main objective of the conference is to probe and interrogate the overlaps and intersections between queer studies and postcolonial studies while maintaining a critical approach to disciplinary boundaries and their assumptions and
limitations. The conference, organized by Corina Wieser-Cox (Bremen), Oluwadunni Talabi (Bremen), Rita Maricocchi (Münster), and Dorit Neumann (Münster), will include a keynote workshop* by Prof. Dr Shola Adenekan (Ghent University) and apanel on the topic: Cultivating Solidarity Networks in Academia. E-mail: postcolonialnarrations@g-a-p-s.net. *Great idea for a hypothetical conference.