This open access book links the artistic and cultural turn in migration studies to the larger
struggle for narrative and cultural change in European migration societies. It proposes
theoretical and methodological approaches that highlight how ideas of change expressed in
artistic and cultural practices spread and lead to wider cultural change. The book also looks
at the slow processes of change in large cultural institutions that emerged at a time when
culture was nationalised. It explains how individual and group activities can have an impact
beyond their immediate surroundings. Finally the book discusses how migration researchers have
cooperated with arts and cultural producers and used artistic means to increase the effect of
their research in the wider public. As such the book provides a great resource for graduate
students and researchers in the social sciences and the humanities who have an interest in
migration studies and want to move beyond interpreting the world towards changing it.
