Writing Migration through the Body builds a study of the body as a mutable site for negotiating
and articulating the transnational experience of mobility. At its core stands a selection of
recent migration stories in Italian which are brought into dialogue with related material from
cultural studies and the visual arts. Occupying no single disciplinary space and drawing upon
an elaborate theoretical framework ranging from phenomenology to anthropology human geography
and memory studies this volume explores the ways in which the skin itself operates as a border
and brings to the surface the processes by which a sense of place and self are described and
communicated through the migrant body. Through investigating key concepts and practices of
transnational embodied experience the book develops the interpretative principle that the
individual bodies which move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through
which the transcultural passages of images emotions ideas memories - and also histories and
possible futures - are enacted.
