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List of novels on migration (2020s)
January 3, 2022Below is a gathered list of novels from the 2020s that touch upon themes of migration. We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez2020Migrations… Read more
List of novels on migration (2010s)
January 2, 2022Below is a gathered list of novels from the 2010s that touch upon themes of migration. Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda2010Girls in Translation by… Read more
List of novels on migration (2000s)
January 2, 2022Below is a gathered list of novels from the 2000s that touch upon themes of migration. The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi2000Middlesex by… Read more
List of novels on migration (1990s)
January 2, 2022Below is a gathered list of novels from the 1990s that touch upon themes of migration. Ruby by Rosa Guy1991The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur1991Dreaming… Read more
The New Yorker: Mapping the Journeys of Syria’s Artists
November 11, 2019The New Yorker featured an article about Syrian disbursement across the Middle east and Europe. The project tracks several Syrians, including a poet and a… Read more
Book: Borderwall As Architecture (2017) by Ronald Rael
November 11, 2019Ronald Rael, Borderwall As Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017) From the Publisher: “Through a series of… Read more
Mohsin Hamid’s migration tale in Booker shortlist
September 17, 2017The Pakistani-born Mohsin Hamid’s fourth novel, “Exit West,” takes the current Middle Eastern migrant crisis and injects a wizardry, an allegorical urgency, that declares this… Read more
List of academic articles on migration (1981 to 2016)
December 3, 20162011-2016 Scott Blinder and William L. Allen. “Constructing Immigrants: Portrayals of Migrant Groups in British National Newspapers, 2010–2012.” International Migration Review. Spring 2016. Shepard, Mark. “Minor Urbanism: Everyday Entanglements… Read more
List of academic books on migration (1890s to 2012)
December 3, 20162011-12 CELIK, IPEK A. IN PERMANENT CRISIS: ETHNICITY IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN MEDIA AND CINEMA. ANN ARBOR: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS, 2015. MARTIN, Susan. A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS.… Read more
Article: Edward Said, Between Worlds (1998)
November 3, 2016Edward Said makes sense of his life. “The day in early September 1951 when my mother and father deposited me at the gates of that… Read more