Abstract

The innovative four-point structure—Arrivals, Departures, Generations, and Return—of The Penguin Book of Migration Literature expands the purview established by previous anthologies of immigrant literature by mobilizing a classroom conversation where students’ own lived experiences of migratory crossings combine with the anthology’s narratives to both analyze texts and critique present national and global political climate.

Highlights

  • A t a time when words such as borders, walls, xenophobia, and immigration have become part of our everyday discourse—nationally and globally—it is difficult to ignore the repercussions of such words and phrases on immigration policies and our understanding of humanity

  • At a time when the pandemic compelled introspection about various forms of socio-economic borders, narratives of migration gained a deeper significance in the hands of the students, thereby encouraging them to explore their own positionality in the context of migration

  • Reading the stories with my students brought back memories of how as a recent immigrant myself, I found it challenging to navigate the different cultural and linguistic spaces—experiences that many of my immigrant students shared during the discussion

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A t a time when words such as borders, walls, xenophobia, and immigration have become part of our everyday discourse—nationally and globally—it is difficult to ignore the repercussions of such words and phrases on immigration policies and our understanding of humanity. Migration Literature became an apt forum to inspire research into migration, a topic both personal and political to many of my students.

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