TY  - BOOK
AU  - Englund,Lena
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Storying Contemporary Migration: Representation, Aspirations, Advocacy 
SN  - 9783031620034
AV  - PN45.5 
U1  - 808 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Non-Fiction Literature
KW  - Human Migration
KW  - World Literature
KW  - Contemporary Literature
N1  - Introduction -- Representing Migration -- Aspirations and Expectations.-Undocumented Migration -- Fortress Europe vs. Open Borders -- Migrant Crisis.-Seeking New Directions; Open Access
N2  - This book examines contemporary stories of migration belonging to multiple literary genres such as nonfiction, memoir, novel, and essay, and explores the futures they envision for migrants and their surrounding societies. The primary material ranges from personal experiences of migration for professional purposes and of being undocumented without access to citizenship, to novels that provide fictional representations of migrants and their complex lives. This study asks how migration, as portrayed in contemporary writing, addresses personal, social, and political consequences of being on the move. The book is organised around central themes such as the status of being undocumented, or aspirations and expectations of both migrants themselves as well as their new environs. The material examined has been published from 2016 onwards, addressing the aftermath of the migrant crisis 2015-2016 as well as the Trump administration 2017-2021. Lena Englund is Senior Researcher in the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Her previous books, South African Autobiography as Subjective History: Making Concessions to the Past (2021) and Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa (2023), were both published by Palgrave Macmillan
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62003-4
ER  -