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The peer-reviewed essays presented in this interdisciplinary volume explore the many facets of migration and the consequences of displacement on the lives of those individuals who undertake the experience. The volume analyses how migrants both experience and express the complex nature of migration, and how this significant event affects and transforms individual lives and communities. In discussing the migratory experience, the authors explore historical and contemporary, overseas and transnational, 'forced' and 'voluntary' migrations. They also utilise multiple sources, including historical and archival research, oral testimony, literature, film, radio, sites of memory, material culture and the analysis of discourse narratives. The title of the volume, Imagining Home: Migrants and the search for a new belonging, reflects the many ways that the notions of 'home' and 'belonging' can question and redefine each other.

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Professor Diana Glenn is Dean, School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, and teaches in the Department of Italian. Eric Bouvet is a Senior Lecturer in French and currently Head of the Department of Language Studies at Flinders University (Australia). His main research interests lie in Applied Linguistics (reading in a foreign language) and in migration studies with a focus on the French in Australia. Eric is currently researching the specificities of post-World War II French migration to Australia, an area in which he has published several articles. Sonia Floriani is Assistant Professor at the University of Calabria (Italy), where she teaches 'Sociology of Culture' and 'Comparative Cultures'. She is a member of the Doctoral School A.G. Frank in 'Knowledge and Innovations for Development' and has carried out research in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Her present interests of study are in the sociology of migration and sociology of literature.

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