Migration
Migrations and border crossings have shaped and continue to shape literary and cultural production wherever French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese are spoken. In a world where 65.5 million people (or 1 in 113 individuals) have been forcibly displaced within their own countries or across borders, paying attention to migration and its consequences is more crucial than ever.
Stories about migration and border crossing are myriad and contradictory. They appear in diverse genres, ranging from oral traditions to new media, and most of these emerge in interstitial spaces between nations, cultures, and languages. Studying migration and border crossing requires an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective; faculty and students in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures conduct research and regularly teach on migration and related topics.
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