Cultures of Mobility and Alterity: Crossing the Balkans and Beyond

Cultures of Mobility and Alterity: Crossing the Balkans and Beyond
ISBN-10
1802070729
ISBN-13
9781802070729
Category
Social Science
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2022-09-15
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Authors
Yana Hashamova, Oana Popescu-Sandu, Sunnie Rucker-Chang

Description

Advancing public dialogue surrounding the issues of migrants and refugees, the volume explores the dynamic representations of the recent movement of people from and through the Balkans. It investigates how people within the Balkans view their others, how the West regards the Balkans, and how emigrants from the Balkans reflect upon their experiences as members of cosmopolitan diasporic communities. Highlighting latent tensions between center and periphery and furthering the discussion of racialization related to the Balkans, the collection exposes contradictions in social values, which give rise to national anxieties. Approaching mobility from multiple disciplines, the volume examines several instances of border flows in media, literature, and culture in general, flows of ideas and people. To analyze mobility to, from, and in the Balkans requires one to address the issue of difference, otherness, and race as it relates to South East Europe and as it is understood and reproduced in both transnational and local forms. The racialized category of “migrant” necessitates an understanding of how transnational concepts of race translate into constructs of whiteness and blackness and inform subject positions of the individual and motivate discourses of racialization within communities.

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