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 Aleksiæ at
atatjana@umich. edu and Caterina Romeo at romeo.caterina@ gmail.com
[sursa romstudyabroad]
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