Migration, Intercultural Identities and Border Regions (19th and 20th Centuries) / Migration, identités interculturelles et espaces frontaliers (XIXe et XXe siècles)

Contents/Contenu : Elien Declercq/Walter Kusters/Saartje Vanden Borre/Marc Depaepe/Lieven D'hulst/Dagmar Vandebosch/Tom Verschaffel: Preface. A Plea for Cultural Histories of Migration as Seen from a So-called 'Euro-region' - Søren Frank: Literature of Migration. A Conceptual Meditation - Ian Grosvenor: 'It is on the Site of Loss that Hopes are Born'. Migration, Education and the Writing of History - Charles Bonn : Dire de la migration et localisation des écritures maghrébines émergentes - Walter Kusters: Bordering Citizenship. The Presence/Absence Ambiguity of Migrants in the French 'mission civilisatrice' - Lionel Picard : La représentation des Aussiedler dans le Grafschafter Bote - Matteo Pretelli: Over the Borders of the Mother Land. Fascist Textbooks for Italian Schools Abroad - Peter Leese: Negotiating the Border. Dónall MacAmhlaigh's Migrant Life-story - Florence Labaune-Demeule : La construction de nouveaux espaces frontaliers dans l'oeuvre de V.S. Naipaul - Yves Quairiaux : Les images de l'immigré flamand dans la littérature dialectale wallonne avant 1914. Leur contribution à la construction d'une identité collective - Chiara Bignamini-Verhoeven : Traverser les frontières dans le Montréal de Bonheur d'occasion - An Van Hecke: The Border Revisited. Analysis of Space in Rolando Hinojosa's Novel The Valley - Timothy Baycroft: Transfrontalier Migration between Belgium and France from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century - Stephen Joyce: A Tragic Vision of the Contact Zone. Memories of my Ghost Brother and the Challenge to Theory - Elien Declercq : L'identité interculturelle du migrant belge en France. Une analyse discursive des chansons populaires - Élodie Gaden : Variations sur une acculturation à rebours. Jehan d'Ivray et Valentine de Saint-Point, deux Françaises en Égypte - Silvana Mandolessi: Migrant Literature and Irony. Copi's Deconstruction of National Identity in La internacional argentina - Céline Regnard : Jouer à Marseille. Quelle

Elien Declercq, PhD in Literature, is a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven. Her research interests include literary discourse analysis, migration literature and intercultural transfer in border regions. Walter Kusters, PhD in Educational Sciences, is affiliated to KU Leuven. His chief research interest is the historiography of education, citizenship and acculturation, especially in relation to identificational interculturality and collective self-understanding. Saartje Vanden Borre holds a PhD in History from KU Leuven. Her current research focuses on the memory of the First World War in Belgian education throughout the interwar period. She previously published on migration and intergroup relations.