Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture

1        Introduction

Political and Theoretical Context

Textual Methods

The Im/Mobilities Paradigm

Refugee Journeys

Borders

Decoloniality

Global Context

Chapter Outline

References

2        People on the Move: Narratives for a Journey of Hope

Not Belonging and Unwanted

Somewhere in the EU

The Longest Journey

Reversing the Appearance of the Frontier

References

3        Policing Displacement and Asylum: Giving Voice to Refugees

Crisis at the Border

Mapping Separation

Storying the Stranger

Telling the Story Differently

Into the Abyss

Writing a Name in the Sky

Leveraging the Queue as a Technology

References

4        Out of Focus and Out of Place: The Migrant Journey

Telling a Story with a Voiceless Pencil

In the Labyrinth

The European Middle Ages

Calais Context

Framing the Dispossessed

In the Grey Zones

References

5        Restaging the Colonial Encounter: Far-Right Narratives of Europe and African Migrant Responses                                                           

 White Genocide                                                                                                            The Southern Gaze

Elsewhere and Here: Revisiting the Colonial Encounter

Silenced Deaths

Unequal Mobility Regime

References

6.        Fragmented Spaces/Broken Time: Restoring the Absence of Story in the

          West Bank of Palestine

          Time, Space and Mobility

           Naziheen, the Displaced Ones

           How Distances Always Measure the Same

           Plan Dalet

           Tracing History

           A Jar in Ramallah

            Postscript: An Incurable Malady

           References