Please note the change of deadline for paper submissions. Proposals for individual presentations should be submitted through the ACLA conference portal at
http://www.acla. org/submit/ choose the panel title and send your proposal.
The deadline is Nov. 15, rather than the original date in our first posting.
countries of Southern Europe and the Balkans 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 used to define 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).
Tatjana Aleksic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, atatjana@umich. edu; Caterina Romeo, University of Rome, 'La Sapienza', romeo.caterina@ gmail.com
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