About this ebook
Vildan Mahmutoğlu is Associate Professor at Galatasaray University, Istanbul. Her research interests include migration, local cultures, gender, and minorities. Her published book chapters include “A Glimmer of Hope for Mass Media in a Liberal democracy: istanbulrumazinligi.com” and “Global media Entertainment: star search.” Her current research is about gender in diaspora.
John Morán González is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies. He is author of two monographs and the edit or or c o-editor of thr ee anthologies.”
Contents
Introduction
Vildan Mahmutoğlu and John Moran Gonzalez
CHAPTER 1. Representation of Asylum seekers in Science Fiction films: Prawns in District 9
Vildan Mahmutoğlu
CHAPTER 2. Border Imagery and Refugee Abjection in Contemporary Visual Art
Balca Arda
CHAPTER 3. Manifestations of Transfer in the Latest Post-Yugoslav Playwriting and Theatre: Migration, Cultural Mobility and Transculturality
Gabriela Abrasowicz
CHAPTER 4. Migrants, Identity, and Body Modification in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Media
Eric Trinka
CHAPTER 5. ‘The new diaspora’ and interactive media campaigns: The case of Romanians migrating to the UK after Brexit
Bianca Florentina Cheregi
CHAPTER 6. Social Media and ICT Use by refugees, Immigrants and NGOs: A Literature Overview
Bilgen Türkay
CHAPTER 7. Reproduction of Desire: Overuse of Social Media Among Syrian Refugees and Its Effects on The Future Imagination
Barış Öktem
About the author
Vildan MAHMUTOĞLU is Associate Professor at Galatasaray University, Istanbul. Her research interests include migration, local cultures, gender and minorities. Her current research is about gender in the diaspora. She has been an editor of Galatasaray University Communication faculty journal Iletisim since January 2020.
John Morán GONZÁLEZ is the J. Frank Dobie Regents Professor of American and English Literature and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has authored two monographs: Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature and The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature and co-editor (with Laura Lomas) of The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature. He is co-editor (with Sonia Hernández) of Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on Borderlands History (forthcoming 2021).
