Debates and discourses surrounding migrationparticularly in Europeare dominated by narratives centred on security and crisis management. The distortion this creates in the public perception of migrants, alongside the xenophobia it indirectly fuels, obscures the social, political, and cultural contributions that define these exchanges.
This series of essays seeks to demonstrate how, through media, art, and literature, migration to the European continent does not merely entail adaptation but actively shapes and enriches host societies. Drawing from philosophical, cultural and media studies and sociological perspectives, the authors propose a kaleidoscopic view of migratory processes, recontextualising concepts, periods, and interactions in the contemporary world. Here, migration emerges as a dynamic and creative force capable of reframing cultural and social actionboth for host and origin communitiesas well as redefining notions of belonging and group identity.
Simultaneously, the essays call for a re-evaluation of hospitality policies and cultural rights, essential to understanding the transformative capacity of existing structuresand the potential to reimagine them through a new lens.
List of Figures - List of Tables - Introduction JAVIER JURADO - On
Errancy: Dante, Montaigne, Kant LAUREANO LOPEZ - A Historical Overview of the
Social Representation of Spanish Emigration in the Mass Media SONIA MARTÍN -
Narratives on the Culture of the Latin American Diaspora in Paris:
Reflections on a Self-Representation Proposal in the Digital Era PAOLA GARCÍA
- Siempre serás un extranjero en los dos países: Exploring Mental Health
and Identity Struggles in Moroccan Immigrant Narratives in Najat El Hachmi
and Saïd El Kadaoui ZAHRA EL MORABIT - A Crossroads of Migrations in Tríptico
de la infamia (2014), by Pablo Montoya CHARLES-ÉLIE LE GOFF - Roberto Bolaño:
A Literary Nomad and his Role in the Paradigm Shift of the Latin American
Creative Writer DANIEL ROJAS PACHAS - The Painting of Exile: The Retreat and
Spanish Artists After the Civil War JAVIER JURADO - TeatroBe: Support and
Expectations MARINA RUIZ CANO - (Re)configuration of Intimate Spaces by/for
Binational Marriages in France: Are Euro-Asian Families Undesirable to the
Host Society? YOKO IWASHITA - They Asked If I Had a Vagina: Ethnographic
Reflections on How Queer Asian Migrants in Belgium Navigate Between Self and
State AARON RAPHAEL PONCE - Crossing Boundaries: A Study on Ethnic Identity
and Integration Among the Binational (EstonianForeign) Population Based on
Census Data GABRIEL ALBERTO CEBALLOS RODRÍGUEZ - Revisiting the
Marriage-Migration Nexus in the Global South: Asymmetries of
ChineseCongolese Couples Under State Regulations CAI CHEN - Digital
Governance of Migration on the BrazilVenezuela Border DENISE COGO AND JULIA
CAMARGO - Clues to Understanding the Civic Dimension of the Latin American
Diaspora in Spain RAQUEL TARULLO - The Arts as an Act of Resistance: Actions
to Nomadise from TransMigrARTS, MUSA, and Alegría Latina JULIANA MARÍN
TABORDA AND SANDRA CAMACHO LÓPEZ - Rethinking Hospitality Through Artistic
Practice LEIDY JALK BARRIOS - The Migratory Experience as a Choreographic
Trigger ALEJANDRO RUSSO AND SCHEHERAZADE ZAMBRANO - Epilogue MARTA GARAYOA,
METAPROSA, BRUSSELS, KRISTIN KELLER, OPENDEUR, KORTRIJK, AND DAGMAR
VANDEBOSCH, KU LEUVEN
Javier Jurado is a researcher and lecturer in cultural and media history. He teaches Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Lille within the Culture and Media undergraduate programme. His work explores the history of media and cultural industries, drawing on perspectives from communication history, political economy and discourse analysis.
Dagmar Vandebosch is Professor of Hispanic literatures at KU Leuven. Her research interests focus on the construction of (trans)national cultural identities in Spanish-language narrative prose and essays and on Hispanic literature in intercultural contexts. She has studied literature and documentary film in contexts of exile, migration, travel and tourism.
