NARRATIVES OF FORCED MOBILITY AND DISPLACEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND CULTURE : border... violence

__Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence__ focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives―cinematic, photographic, and literary―produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants. The book explores refugee journeys, asylum-seeking, trafficking, and deportation as well as territorial displacement, the architecture of occupation and settlement, and border separation and violence. The large-scale movement of people from the global South to the global North is explored through the perspectives of the new mobilities paradigm, including the fact that, for many of the displaced, waiting and __immobility__ is a common part of their experience. Through critical analysis drawing on cultural studies and literary studies, Roger Bromley generates an alternative “map” of texts for understanding displacement in terms of affect, subjectivity, and dehumanization with the overall aim of opening up new dialogues in the face of the current stream of anti-refugee rhetoric. Acknowledgments 7 Praise for Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture 10 Contents 11 List of Figures 13 1 Introduction 14 Political and Theoretical Context 16 Textual Methods 23 The Im/Mobilities Paradigm 24 Refugee Journeys 26 Borders 28 Decoloniality 31 Global Context 32 Chapter Outline 35 References 37 2 People on the Move: Narratives for a Journey of Hope 40 Not Belonging and Unwanted 45 Somewhere in the EU 50 No Longer in This World 53 The Longest Journey 58 Reversing the Appearance of the Frontier 61 References 70 3 Policing Displacement and Asylum: Giving Voice to Refugees 72 Crisis at the Border 73 The Liberal Dilemma 75 Mapping Separation 76 Storying the Stranger 79 Telling the Story Differently 86 Into the Abyss 91 Writing the Migrant into the Narrative 93 Writing a Name in the Sky 101 Leveraging the Queue as a Technology 103 References 110 4 Out of Focus and Out of Place: The Migrant Journey 113 Telling a Story with a Voiceless Pencil2 117 In the Labyrinth 124 The European Middle Ages 131 Calais Context 132 Framing the Dispossessed 133 In the Grey Zones 144 References 150 5 Restaging the Colonial Encounter: Far-Right Narratives of Europe and African Migrant Responses 153 White Genocide 156 The Southern Gaze 163 Elsewhere and Here: Revisiting the Colonial Encounter 168 Silenced Deaths 178 Unequal Mobility Regime 186 References 189 6 Fragmented Spaces/Broken Time: Restoring the Absence of Story in the West Bank of Palestine 193 Time, Space and Mobility 195 Naziheen, the Displaced Ones 200 The Architecture of Occupation 205 Here Distances Always Measure the Same 212 Plan Dalet 216 Tracing History 218 An Infinity of Traces 224 A Jar in Ramallah 231 Postscript: An Incurable Malady 238 References 240 Index 244 Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of the effects of displacement as seen in narratives cinematic, photographic, and literary produced by, with, or about refugees and migrants. The book explores refugee journeys, asylum-seeking, trafficking, and deportation as well as territorial displacement, the architecture of occupation and settlement, and border separation and violence. The large-scale movement of people from the global South to the global North is explored through the perspectives of the new mobilities paradigm, including the fact that, for many of the displaced, waiting and immobility is a common part of their experience. Through critical analysis drawing on cultural studies and literary studies, Roger Bromley generates an alternative ap of texts for understanding displacement in terms of affect, subjectivity, and dehumanization with the overall aim of opening up new dialogues in the face of the current stream of anti-refugee rhetoric