Narrating and Negotiating Identities

Unit 1
Books and poems:
Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains (2018) (autobiographic reportage; excerpts)
Anders Lustgarten, Lampedusa (2015) (play)
Warsan Shire, "Conversation about home (at the deportation centre)" and "Home" (2009) (poems - available online)

Film (class viewing of parts of or whole films):
Farnoosh Abedi, The Sprayer (2022)
Y. Feddah, Queens of Syria (2014)

Photographic projects:
The Game, by Mario Badagliacca
Refugees cameras, by Kevin McElvaney (http://kevin-mcelvaney.com/refugeecameras/)

Critical readings:
Bertacco, Simona, and Nicoletta Vallorani. The Relocation of Culture. Literatures, Cultures, Translation. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Recommended critical readings (optional):
Bhabha Homi K. "The Other Question ... The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse". Screen, vol. 24 no. 6: 1983, pp. 18-36. (the article will be made available on myAriel)
Maribel Casas-Cortes, Sebastian Cobarrubias, Nicholas, De Genova, Glenda Garelli, Giorgio Grappi, Charles, et al. 2014. "New Keywords: Migration and Borders". Cultural Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1-33. (the article will be made available on myAriel)
Polezzi, Loredana. "Translation and Migration". Translation Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2012, pp. 345-368. (open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14781700.2012.701943)
These and other recommended (i.e. non compulsory) readings will be uploaded on the myAriel site of the course.

Unit 2
The list of texts is indicative and includes texts to be used as a starting point for individual or group research.
Baker, Mone 2020. Rehumanizing the migrant: the translated past as a resource for refashioning the contemporary discourse of the (radical) left. Palgrave Communications 6, 12.
Borlongan, Ariane Macalinga 2023. Migration linguistics. A synopsis. AILA Review 36(1), pp. 38 - 63.
Chouliaraki, Lilie 2017. Symbolic bordering: the self-representation of migrants and refugees in digital news. Popular Communication 15(2), 78-94.
Cooper, Glenda, Blumell, Lindsey, Bunce, Mel 2021. Beyond the 'refugee crisis': How the UK news media represent asylum seekers across national boundaries. International Communication Gazette, 83(3), 195-216.
Guido, Maria Grazia 2018. ELF in migration. In Jenkins, Jane, Baker, Will, Dewey, Martin (eds), The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca¸ London: Routledge.
Jacobs, Marie, and Maryns, Katrijn 2022. Managing narratives, managing identities: Language and credibility in legal consultations with asylum seekers. Language in Society 51(3), 375-402.
Kiramba, Lydiah Kananu., and Oloo, James Alan 2023. "It's OK. She Doesn't Even Speak English": Narratives of Language, Culture, and Identity Negotiation by Immigrant High School Students. Urban Education 58(3), 398-426.
Lenette, Caroline, Baker, Sally and Hirsch, Asher 2019. Systemic Policy Barriers to Meaningful Participation of Students from Refugee and Asylum Seeking Backgrounds in Australian Higher Education: Neoliberal Settlement and Language Policies and (Deliberate?) Challenges for Meaningful Participation. In McBrien, Jody L. (ed) Educational Policies and Practices of English-Speaking Refugee Resettlement Countries Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp. 88-109.
Li, Guofang and Sah, Pramod Kumar 2019. Immigrant and refugee language policies, programs, and practices in an era of change. Promises, contradictions, and possibilities. In Gold, Steven J. and Nawyn, Stephanie J. (eds) Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies, 2nd edition, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 325-338.
Maryns, Katrijn 2017. The Use of English as ad hoc Institutional Standard in the Belgian Asylum Interview. Applied Linguistics 38(5), 737-758.
Maryns, Katrijn and Slembrouck, Stef 2022. Categorization and the Use of English as an (Im)mobile Resource in Service Encounters with Migrants in Flanders. In De Fina, Anna, and Mazzaferro, Gerardo (eds) Exploring (Im)mobilities: Language Practices, Discourses and Imaginaries. Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit: Multilingual Matters.
Onganaert, David, Joye, Stijn 2019. Selling displaced people? A multimethod study of the public communication strategies of international refugee organisations. Disasters 43(3): 478−508.
Onganaert, David, Joye, Stijn, Ihlen, Øyvind 2023. Manufacturing Humanitarian Imagery: Explaining Norwegian Refugee Council's Public Communication Strategies Toward the Syrian and Central African Crises. International Journal of Communication 17, 3799-382.
Piacentini, Teresa, O'Donnell, Catherine, Phipps, Alison, Jackson¸ Ima and Stack, Niamh 2019. Moving beyond the 'language problem': developing an understanding of the intersections of health, language and immigration status in interpreter-mediated health encounters, Language and Intercultural Communication, 19:3, 256-271,
Smith-Khan, Laura 2019. Communicative resources and credibility in public discourse on refugees. Language in Society 48, 403-427.
Smith-Khan, Laura 2019. Why refugee visa credibility assessments lack credibility: a critical discourse analysis. Griffith Law Review 28(4), 406-430.
Taylor, Charlotte 2021. Metaphors of migration over time. Discourse & Society 32(4), 463-481.
Van Leuven, Sarah, Deprez, Annelore, Joye, Stijn, Ongenaert, David 2018. How do Flemish politicians talk about migration? A study on the political framing of migration in Belgium 2016-2018. Ghent University.
Wright, Sue 2020. Migration, Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. In Inglis, Christine, Li, Wei and Khadria, Binod (eds), The SAGE Handbook of International Migration, London: SAGE, 142-158.