CFP: New Migrations in the Balkans and the Mediterranean, paper proposals for the accepted panel at ACLA Meeting, 4/24-27 2008
June Samaras
From: Tatjana Aleksic <atat...@umich.edu>
Date: Sep 28, 2007 7:03 PM
We invite paper proposals for the accepted panel at the next ACLA
meeting at Long Beach, California, April 24-27 2008:
From Emigrant to Immigrant Cultures:
New Migrations in the Balkans and the Mediterranean
The countries of Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean have
historically contributed large immigrant populations to
industrialized nations. However, with the fall of Communism and
abolition of internal EU borders many of these nations find
themselves at the receiving end of global migrations. Italy and
Greece, for example, first faced the bursting of the barriers of the
Albanian Communist isolation and have since become preferred
destinations of global migrations. In the Balkans most nations find
themselves in the paradoxical situation – while the domestic
population is still leaving their fragile economies, due to their
affiliations with the EU they attract considerable immigrant
populations. Such migratory exchanges create a climate relatively new
to these cultures that until recently defined themselves in terms of
homogeneity and exclusivity.
While it may be too early to discuss established migrant or hybrid
cultures in these nations, we are interested in exploring the
emerging awareness and recognition of the newly created cultural
situation. How does the host culture respond to the presence of the
immigrant, or is their presence ignored and why? How visible are
migrant authors on the cultural scene of their chosen cultures? Who
are their audiences? How do they overcome the language barrier? We
invite papers that present the ways in which the cultural production
in the region articulates exile, immigrant and post-immigrant
identities, negotiates racism and prejudice, responds to ethnocentric
homogeneity of host cultures, overcomes linguistic barriers and
reaches broader audiences (or not).
Please send 200-word abstracts by January 31 2008 to Tatjana Aleksić,
atat...@umich.edu and Caterina Romeo, romeo.c...@gmail.com
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