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A brief discussion of the limitations of the 1951 Refugee Convention definition of those eligible for asylum precedes the analysis of different texts in this chapter which look at varying ‘categories’ of those who have migrated. Up to this point, the book has, with one exception, concentrated upon the representation of refugee/migrants in film. This chapter addresses different aspects of the migrant experience through the medium of three graphic narratives and an experimental film. The aspects considered are the journey (Shaun Tan’s The Arrival, 2006), the asylum application process (Mana Neyestani’s Petit Manuel, 2015), and the misery and squalor—though also the migrant activism—evident in makeshift refugee camps (Kate Evans’s Threads from the Refugee Crisis (2017) and Sylvain George’s May they Rest in Revolt (2010).
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Bromley, R. (2021). Out of Focus and Out of Place: The Migrant Journey. In: Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73596-8_4
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