At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism. The ambiguous nature of memories, media representations and popular culture productions are highlighted throughout in order to address negative stereotypes and conversely, humanize the individuals involved.
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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Lynda Mannik
SECTION I: EMBEDDED MEMORIES FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION
Chapter 1. Children's Literature and Memory Activism: British Child Labor Migrants' Passage to Canada
Sharon R. Roseman
Chapter 2. Representing Migration by Boat at the Australian National Maritime Museum
Kim Tao
Chapter 3. Nuoc/Water: Oceanic Spatialities and the Vietnamese Diaspora
Vinh Nguyen
SECTION II: THE ARTIST AND THE ILLEGAL MIGRANT
Chapter 4. Imagining Europe's Borders: Commemorative Art on Migrant Tragedies
Karina Horsti
Chapter 5. "Washed Clean": The Forgotten Journeys of "Irregular Maritime Arrivals" in J.M. Coetzee's Estralia
Jennifer Rutherford
Chapter 6. Unstable Vessels: Small Boats as Emblems of Deaths Foretold and As Harbingers of Better Futures in Figurations Of Irregular Migration Across The Strait of Gibraltar
David Álvarez
SECTION III: MEDIA, POLITICS, AND REPRSENTATION
Chapter 7. Memory and Migrations in the Mediterranean: The Case of the Kater I Rades
Daniele Salerno
Chapter 8. "Where are Our Sons?" Tunisian Families and the Repolitization of Deadly Migration Across the Mediterranean by Boat
Federico Oliveri
Chapter 9. Mysterious Refugees: Social Drama Ensues
Lynda Mannik
Chapter 10. Islands and Images of Flight around Europe's Southern Rim: Trouble in Heterotopia
Helen M. Hintjens
SECTION IV: STORIES OF SMUGGLING, TRAUMA, AND RESCUE
Chapter 11. "If We Die, We Die Together:" Risking Death at Sea in Search of Safety
Sue Hoffman
Chapter 12. En Route to Hell: Dreams of Adventure and Traumatic Experiences Among West African "Boat People" to Europe
Papa Sow, Elina Marmer and Jürgen Scheffran
Chapter 13. Re-living Janga: Survivor Narratives
Linda Briskman and Michelle Dimasi
Afterword
Lynda Mannik
