Comics and Migration: Representation and Other Practices Ralf Kauranen 9781032138503

The volume:
* offers a multidisciplinary perspective to the manifold entanglements of comics and migration, examining both individual works of comic art and examples of applied uses of comics and includes both academic and practice-based texts
* proposes a contextual approach to comics, which combines a focus on comics' form and content with an emphasis on their cultural, social, political, and historical underpinnings
* expands the geographical scope of comics studies by including case studies of understudied areas such as the Nordic region, the German-language countries, Latin America and southern Asia
* will be of interest to department of comics studies, literary studies, visual art studies, cultural studies, migration, and sociology across the UK/US. Due to the interdisciplinary theme of the book it will also be useful reading to a wider academic audience interested in the representation, discourses and practices of global migration as well as activists and NGOs working with migrants for literature covering the topic.

Ralf Kauranen is a sociologist and comics scholar affiliated to the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku, Finland. He led the project "Comics and Migration: Belonging, Narration, Activism", funded by the Kone Foundation and located at the Department of Finnish Literature, University of Turku, in 2018-2021.

Olli Loeytty is an adjunct professor at the University of Turku, Finland. His research focuses on postcolonialism, nationalism, multilingualism, and representations of cultural encounters in literature. He is currently working on the project "Literature and Reading in the Era of Climate Crisis" at the University of Helsinki.

Aura Nikkila is a doctoral researcher in art history at the University of Turku, Finland. Nikkila's doctoral project concerns the role of photography in migration-themed comics. She has published on multilingualism and transnationalism in comics as well as on empathy and activism in relation to graphic narratives.

Anna Vuorinne is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Turku, Finland. Her dissertation examines the conventions of human rights narration in contemporary German comics depicting migration. In her publications on comics, she has also written about the questions of gender, sexuality, and feminism.