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Reading the Post-migrant: Reinterpreting Migration Literature in Scandinavia
Calvani, Emilio ; Březinová, Helena (advisor) ; Stahr, Radka (referee) ; Ciaravolo, Massimo (referee)
Emilio Calvani Advisor: Prof. Bruno Berni Co-Advisor: Prof. Helena Březinová Abstract Reading the Post-migrant: Reinterpreting Migration Literature in Scandinavia. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, migration has played an increasingly important and pervasive role in Western societies. The current globalizing network that interconnects distant places allows people, information, and images to move with greater speed and ease. This varied flow of movement has also had radical demographic repercussions over time. More and more people are moving from the Global South to the Global North in search of better prospects, thus giving rise to new generations of individuals whose life experiences fade the boundaries between local and global, nation and world. This posits the very concept of migration, in the different declinations and forms in which it manifests itself daily, as one of the cornerstones for understanding contemporaneity. At the same time, the strategies by which societies themselves interpret and modulate metanarrative processes to present themselves often relegate such realities to a secondary position. Such processes, in fact, tend to marginalize all those voices that set out to narrate intertwined cultures, languages, and identities and, consequently, to include the perspective of migration in...
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