Migration Narratives: Bridges Across Peoples, Nations, and Disciplines

American culture is frequently reconstituted as new populations continue to arrive to U.S. destinations with the intentions of staying. To claim that this experience is uniquely American, or even contemporary, is to close to our eyes to the historical, social, and global realities of migration that have constituted the diverse communities that have truly always been our human legacy.

This group of researchers and scholars has found that, regardless of their disciplinary emphases, they cannot deny that we are as human species in the midst of migration and immigration struggles and debates, similar to those of the past, but poignantly and powerfully unique due to the many global crises of ecology, cultural strife, economies and health. We form this research cluster sharing convictions regarding the power of narratives to create, maintain, resist and re/transform social reality.