I. B. Tauris & Company The Culture of Migration: Politics, Aesthetics and Histories (International Library of Migration Studies)

Migration has been a phenomenon throughout human history but today, as a result of economic hardship, conflict and globalization, a higher percentage of people than ever before live outside their country of birth. Increased international migration has resulted in more movement of information, traditions and cultures. Migration thus acts as a catalyst: not only of social change, but also for the generation of new aesthetic phenomena. The Culture of Migration explores the ways in which culture and the arts have been transformed by migration in recent decades - and, in turn, how these cultural and aesthetic transformations have contributed to shaping our identities, politics and societies.