Transdisciplinary Study of Global Mobilities

Identities on the Moveinterrogates the categories given and adopted bypeople on the movethrough a transdisciplinary and global approach that includes social and political sciences and the arts. It brings together experiences of displacement from avariety of cultural and national backgrounds, including Brazilians, Chinese, Koreans, South Italians, Africans, Muslims, Arabophobe migrants, Iranians, Pakistanis, Bosnians, Latin Americans and Eastern Europeans. It looks at their identity-negotiatingprocesses in different geographies across the globe, namely Japan, UK, Palestine,Italy, Australia, Europe and North America. This multi-geographical and multi-disciplinary approach allows us todecentralise previous narratives of migration by reformulating them againstcoloniality and invisibility and presenting them within a richer and changingcontemporary map of dynamic identities. The global scale of the case studiesincluded in this volume also allows for a wider exploration of thematicconcepts within the (trans)formation of displaced identities, such asassimilation versus alienation, memory and trauma, stigmatisation,enculturation, acculturation and deculturation. In a nutshell, this volumehighlights current complexities of identity formation in a global scene that ismoving away from homogenous nations by presenting a multi-layered and multi-spatial notion of belonging.