Crossings Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/cjmc_00048_1

E. Nijdam

{"title":"The smartphone aesthetics of mobility in Kate Evans’s Threads and Reinhard Kleist’s An Olympic Dream","authors":"E. Nijdam","doi":"10.1386/cjmc_00048_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00048_1","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade, comics and graphic novels on migration have become an essential forum for representing refugee experience. This emergent genre of graphic narration not only offers the representation of migrant hardships from the subjective perspective of refugees, artists and volunteers\u0000 working in the community, comics on the refugee crisis also develop empathy and awareness for the plight of migrants internationally by giving a voice to countless nameless ‐ and often faceless ‐ migrants, whose images circulate widely in the media. Moreover, comic artists working\u0000 on refugee and migrant subjects are inventing new visual languages to express these individuals’ perilous journeys from war-torn regions of the Middle East, Africa and Asia to European soil, incorporating the very media technologies essential for migration ‐ and its representation\u0000 ‐ into the comics form. Looking at the smartphone and social media aesthetics of two comics on global forced migration, Kate Evans’s Threads: From the Refugee Crisis and Reinhard Kleist’s An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar, this article assesses\u0000 the significance of incorporating the technologies of migration into its representation.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48888169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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‘Being the culture’ and ‘playing the culture’: Choro and the Brazilianness performed in Brussels “成为文化”和“演绎文化”:在布鲁塞尔演出的七乐舞和巴西性

Crossings Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/cjmc_00042_1

Eliana Rosa de Queiroz Barbosa

{"title":"‘Being the culture’ and ‘playing the culture’: Choro and the Brazilianness performed in Brussels","authors":"Eliana Rosa de Queiroz Barbosa","doi":"10.1386/cjmc_00042_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00042_1","url":null,"abstract":"Choro is an instrumental Brazilian music genre that emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century. It can adopt various forms with a basis of guitar, flute and cavaquinho ‐ the latter, a small guitar of Portuguese origin. Musical arrangements are normally\u0000 elaborate, although in Brazil the players gather in usually informal and open settings, in indoors or outdoors formations called rodas (‘circles’). Following the customs of many Brazilian genres, players sit in a circle facing each other, the audience stands around and,\u0000 occasionally, skilled couples dance to it. A roda de choro is not a concert, yet it is not just a rehearsal, but also a musical experience based on spontaneity. This article, drawing upon an observation exercise in the Brussels (Belgium) Choro scene, intends to explore the multitude\u0000 of meanings of Choro as a practice in which Brazilians in diaspora, other migrants and locals engage and share experiences with each other, focusing on the social geographies of Choro and the social networks derived from this musical practice. The observation of this music-making\u0000 process in Brussels raises additional questions of Brazilian (musical) identity in diaspora and its relation to the notions of longing (saudades), authenticity, affinity, transcendence and joy.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43675557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Transnational Identity and Memory Making in the Lives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora, Nadia Jones-Gailani (2020) 《散居伊拉克妇女生活中的跨国身份和记忆制造》，Nadia Jones Gailani（2020）

Crossings Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/cjmc_00050_5

Samanta Bellotta

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Reshaping ‘time of limbo’ and ‘remoteness’: Everyday practices of reception of asylum seekers in Alpine municipalities in Italy 重塑“不确定的时间”和“遥远”:意大利高山城市接待寻求庇护者的日常做法

Crossings Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/cjmc_00045_1

E. Giacomelli, Orlando De Gregorio

{"title":"Reshaping ‘time of limbo’ and ‘remoteness’: Everyday practices of reception of asylum seekers in Alpine municipalities in Italy","authors":"E. Giacomelli, Orlando De Gregorio","doi":"10.1386/cjmc_00045_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00045_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the experiences of widespread reception of asylum seekers and refugees carried out in some Italian Alpine localities, specifically in Valsugana in Trentino and Val di Susa in Piemonte, in the west and in the east of northern Italy. We focus on the description\u0000 of these two case studies and their relation with the frame of national policies on migration in Italy. What were the main characteristics of these two case studies? How do these local policies interact with the fragmentation, the inconsistency and the emergency-based approach of Italian national\u0000 immigration policies? This research subsumes and aims to move beyond the questions raised above, focusing on the points of view and narratives of social workers, project managers and reception workers (operatore dell’accoglienza). These actors often describe the implementation\u0000 process as a process of policy-making. In conclusion, these case studies highlight that in Italy good practices of reception represent a field where there are coordinations, tensions and conflicts between national and local levels. Indeed, in everyday practices, the limbo and isolation (characterizing\u0000 the life of asylum seekers) are reshaped in inclusion paths. This daily process of policy-making is constantly at risk ‐ in Italy, indeed, good practices of inclusion represent a battlefield criss-crossed by dilemmas.","PeriodicalId":38038,"journal":{"name":"Crossings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45757603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Remembering North Africa in French popular music at the turn of the twenty-first century 在二十一世纪之交的法国流行音乐中回忆北非

Crossings Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/cjmc_00043_1

Ziad Bentahar

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Phantoms of silenced pasts: Lessons for today from the forgotten history of Burmese Indians’ exodus from Burma 沉默的过去的幻影：被遗忘的缅甸印第安人逃离缅甸的历史给今天的教训

Crossings Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/cjmc_00041_1

Annima Bahukhandi

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La Cocina De Las Patronas, Javier García (dir.) (2016)

Crossings Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/cjmc_00049_7

Jáfia Naftali Câmara