Narrating Migrations from Africa and the Middle East

Exploring narratives produced by different groups of MENA and SSA migrants or refugees, this book focuses on the spatial and temporal aspects of their experiences. In doing so, the authors examine a wide range of accounts of journeys to host countries and memories (or recreations) of “home”. The spaces that migrants occupy (or not) in their new country; the spaces and times they share with local populations; and different conceptions of space and time across generations are also investigated, as are how feelings surrounding space and time are manifested within these different narratives and their affective-discursive practices. Taking both a traditional, linear view of migration as well as a multilinear, multimodal approach, the book presents an in-depth investigation into the ways in which people inhabit multiple real and digital spaces.

Ruth Breeze is Full Professor at the University of Navarra and the PI of the Public Discourse research group (Universidad de Navarra, Spain). She is the author of Corporate Discourse (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Rethinking Academic Writing for the European University.

Sarali Gintsburg is researcher and member of the Public Discourse research group (Universidad de Navarra, Spain).

Mike Baynham is Emeritus Professor of TESOL in the School of Education at the University of Leeds, UK.