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Title Migration by boat : discourses of trauma, exclusion, and survival / edited by Lynda Mannik
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 279 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Studies in forced migration ; volume 35
Studies in forced migration ; v. 35.
Contents Introduction / Lynda Mannik -- SECTION I: EMBEDDED MEMORIES FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION. -- Children's Literature and Memory Activism: British child labor migrants' passage to Canada / Sharon R. Roseman -- Representing Migration by Boat at the Australian National Maritime Museum / Kim Tao -- Nuoc/ Water: Oceanic Spatialities and the Vietnamese Diaspora / Vinh Nguyen -- SECTION II: THE ARTIST AND THE ILLEGAL MIGRANT -- Imagining Europe's Borders: Commemorative art on migrant tragedies / Karina Horsti -- "Washed clean": The forgotten journeys of future maritime arrivals in J.M. Coetzee's Estralia / Jennifer Rutherford -- Unstable Vessels: Small Boats as Emblems of Deaths Foretold and As Harbingers of Better Futures in Figurations Of Irregular Migration Across the Strait of Gibraltar / David Alvarez.-- SECTION III: MEDIA, POLITICS, AND REPRESENTATION -- Memorizing boat tragedies in the Mediterranean : the case of the Kater I Rades / Daniele Salerno -- "Where are Our Sons?" Tunisian families and the repoliticization of deadly migration across the Mediterranean Sea / Federico Oliveri -- Mysterious Refugees: Social Drama Ensues / Lynda Mannik -- Island and images of flight around Europe's Southern Rim: trouble in Heterotopia / Helen M. Hintjens -- SECTION IV: STORIES OF SMUGGLING, TRAUMA, AND RESCUE -- "If We Die, We Die Together": Risking Death at Sea in Search of Safety / Sue Hoffman -- En route to Hell: Dreams of Adventure and Traumatic Experiences Among West African Boat People to Europe / Papa Sow, Elina Marmer and Jurgen Scheffran -- Re-living Janga: Survivor Narratives / Linda Briskman and Michelle Dimasi -- Afterword / Lynda Mannik
Summary At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism. The ambiguous nature of memories, media representations and popular culture productions are highlighted throughout in order to address negative stereotypes and conversely, humanize the individuals involved
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on June 27, 2016)
Subject Boat people.
Refugees.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Refugees
refugees.
e-books.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Boat people
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Refugees
Form Electronic book
Author Mannik, Lynda, 1957- editor.
LC no. 2015045252
ISBN 9781785331022
1785331027