Paper Session, AAG, Las Vegas, March 2009
Media(ting) Migration: Mobility, Inclusion and Popular Culture
*Organisers: Susan Mains (University of the West Indies, Mona)
Mary Gilmartin (NUI Maynooth, Ireland)*
Migration is a complex process and migrant experiences are diverse and
dynamic. At the same time media representations of migration have
largely tended to depict migrants, and the spaces they traverse, as
unsophisticated and peripheral. These depictions of migration are
intricately interwoven with notions of race, gender, urbanity,
sexuality, material commodities, religion, nationality, entertainment,
and class (to name a few).This session aims to explore the varied ways
in which migration and migrant identies have been reproduced, revised,
and challenged in popular culture. In particular, we hope that through a
range of theoretical and empirical examples we will add depth and nuance
to our understandings of the ways in which migrant spaces are
represented and negotiated.
The focus of this session is intentionally broad: we are open to a
diversity of contexts in relation to forms of migration, concepts of
popular culture, and locale.
If you are interested in taking part in this session, please send a
title and abstract to Susan Mains ([log in to unmask]) and Mary
Gilmartin ([log in to unmask]) by *October 10, 2008.*
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