A Transdisciplinary Study of Global Mobilities

Identities on the Move interrogates the categories given and adopted by people on the move through a transdisciplinary and global approach that includes social and political sciences and the arts. It brings together experiences of displacement from a variety 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-negotiating processes 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 to decentralise previous narratives of migration by reformulating them against coloniality and invisibility and presenting them within a richer and changing contemporary map of dynamic identities. The global scale of the case studies included in this volume also allows for a wider exploration of thematic concepts within the (trans)formation of displaced identities, such as assimilation versus alienation, memory and trauma, stigmatisation, enculturation, acculturation and deculturation. In a nutshell, this volume highlights current complexities of identity formation in a global scene that is moving away from homogenous nations by presenting a multi-layered and multi-spatial notion of belonging.

Dr Eduardo Tasis Moratinos is a Profesor Contratado Doctor at EUM Fray Luis de León. He is a former Deputy Director of the UCLan Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX). He is the Identities Strand Lead and a member of the Steering Committee of MIDEX, and member of the Steering Committee of the UCLan Institute for Area and Migration Studies (AMIS).

Dr Ti-han Chang is a Lecturer in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She is the deputy director at the Centre of Austronesian Studies (COAST) and further contributes her research through the Northern Institute of Taiwan Studies (NorITS) and the Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX). Externally, Ti-han serves as a board member of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS).

Dr Alicia Moreno Giménez is a Senior Teaching Associate at the University of Lancaster. She is also member of MIDEX at UCLan, and member of the Translation Research Group and the Transcultural Writing, Practice and Research Network at Lancaster.