Bücher für Anglisten, Folge 245. Ein Klappentext.

[insert book title here] proposes a shift in perspective from migration as movement from place to place to migration as installing movement within place. Migration not only takes place between places, but it also has its effects on place, in place.

Wut??

In brief, we suggest a view on migration in which place is neither reified nor transcended, but ‘thickened’ as it becomes the setting of the variegated memories, imaginations, dreams, fantasies, nightmares, anticipations, and idealizations of both migrants and native inhabitants that experiences of migration bring into contact with each other.

Migration makes place overdetermined, turning it into the mise-en-scène of different histories. Hence, movement does not lead to placelessness, but to the intensification and overdetermination of place, its ‘heterotopicality’. At the same time, place does not unequivocally authenticate or validate knowledge, but, shot-through with the transnational and the transcultural, exeeds it ceaselessly.

Alles klar.