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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480029703321

Titolo

Migration by boat : discourses of trauma, exclusion and survival / / edited by Lynda Mannik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-102-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Studies in Forced Migration ; ; Volume 35

Disciplina

305.9/06914

Soggetti

Boat people

Refugees

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I - Embedded Memories for Public Consumption; Chapter 1 - Children's Literature and Memory Activism: British Child Labor Migrants' Passage to Canada; Chapter 2 - Representing Migration by Boat at the Australian National Maritime Museum; Chapter 3 - Nuóc/Water: Oceanic Spatiality and the Vietnamese Diaspora; Section II - The Artist and the Illegal Migrant; Chapter 4 - Imagining Europe's Borders: Commemorative Art on Migrant Tragedies

Chapter 5 - "Washed Clean": The Forgotten Journeys of "Irregular Maritime Arrivals" in J. M. Coetzee's EstraliaChapter 6 - 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; Section III - Media, Politics, and Representation; Chapter 7 - Memorializing Boat Tragedies in the Mediterranean: The Case of the Katër i Radës; Chapter 8 - "Where Are Our Sons?": Tunisian Families and the Repoliticization of Deadly Migration across the Mediterranean Sea

Chapter 9 - Mysterious Refugees: Social Drama EnsuesChapter 10 - Islands and Images of Flight around Europe's Southern Rim: Trouble in Heterotopia; Section IV - Stories of Smuggling, Trauma, and Rescue;



Chapter 11 - "If We Die, We Die Together": Risking Death at Sea in Search of Safety; Chapter 12 - En Route to Hell: Dreams of Adventure and Traumatic Experiences among West African 'Boat People' to Europe; Chapter 13 - Re-living Janga: Survivor Narratives; Afterword; Index