Migrations: Socio-Cultural Contexts and Constitution

Rather than being a historicist approach interested in the origins and development of certain social and cultural expressions, cultural studies, in their most recent manifestations, have engaged with the analysis of specific sociocultural contexts and their constitution, as well as with a critical sensitivity to what is conjunctural and contextual. Within this new framework, migration studies have become an essential platform to update the conceptual categories but also to highlight the “contested terrain” of contemporary cultural studies. The goal of this volume is to explore the interconnection between these two fields of studies. Starting from observations made in fieldwork, literary criticism, visual culture and media studies, the contributions collected here analyse issues such as representation and self-representation, the agency of the storytelling, the victimization and criminalization of migrants, the border crossing and the porosity of borders, the cultural practices of meeting and sharing traditions, nationalities, identities.