Comics and Migration: Representation and Other Practices

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1 Introduction: The entanglements of comics and migration
Part I Migration and the use of comics
	2 The long road to Almanya: Comics in language education for “guest workers” in West Germany, 1970s–1980s
	3 Feminist comics activism: Stories about migrant women in Sweden by Amalia Alvarez and Daria Bogdanska
	4 Contracts via comics: Migrant workers and Thai fishing vessel employment contracts
	5 From representations of suffering migrants to appreciation of the Mexican American legacy in the United States: The NGO-produced comics Historias migrantes
	6 Collaborative work, migrant representativity, and racism
Part II Configurations of nationalism and migration
	7 V for pissed-offedness: anti-immigrant subversion of dystopian superhero intertexts
	8 On the “good” side: hegemonic masculinity and transnational intervention in the representation of US–Mexico border enforcement
	9 The politics of inversion in Americatown: limits in public pedagogy
	10 Racist and national(ist) symbols in a Finnish antiracist comics zine
Part III Conventions and revisions of migration narratives
	11 Absented from his master’s service: Benjamin Franklin House, slavery, and comics
	12 Tears of a refugee: melodramatic life writing and Reinhard Kleist’s Der Traum von Olympia
	13 To see and to show: photography, drawing, and refugee representation in comics journalism on refugee camps
	14 Humans on the move: some thoughts about approaching migration as a journalist in comics
	15 Intolerable fictions: composing refugee realities in comics
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