Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain

The Center for the Study of Europe and the Forced Migration and Human Trafficking Initiative (FMHT) present a lunch talk with Raquel Vega-Durán, Associate Professor of Spanish at Claremont McKenna College. Vega-Durán will discuss her recently published book: Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain (Bucknell University Press, 2016). She introduces readers to a wide range of recent films, journals, novels, photography, paintings, and music to reconsider contemporary Spain through its varied encounters with migrants. She follows the stages of the migrant’s own journey, beginning outside Spanish territory, continuing across the border (either at the barbed-wire fences of Ceuta and Melilla or the waters of the Atlantic or the Strait of Gibraltar), and then considers what happens to migrants after they arrive and settle in Spain.

Lunch available. RSVP to edamrien@bu.edu.