Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Section I Embedded Memories for Public Consumption
7. 1 Children’s Literature and Memory Activism: British Child Labor Migrants’ Passage to Canada 25
8. 2 Representing Migration by Boat at the Australian National Maritime Museum 49
9. 3 Nước/Water: Oceanic Spatiality and the Vietnamese Diaspora 65
10. Section II The Artist and the Illegal Migrant
11. 4 Imagining Europe’s Borders: Commemorative Art on Migrant Tragedies 81
12. 5 “Washed Clean” The Forgotten Journeys of “Irregular Maritime Arrivals” in J. M. Coetzee’s Estralia 101
13. 6 Unstable Vessels: Small Boats as Emblems of Deaths Foretold and as Harbingers of Better Futures in Figurations of Irregular Migration across the Strait of Gibraltar 116
14. Section III Media, Politics, and Representation
15. 7 Memorializing Boat Tragedies in the Mediterranean: The Case of the Katër i Radës 133
16. 8 “Where Are Our Sons?” Tunisian Families and the Repoliticization of Deadly Migration across the Mediterranean Sea 154
17. 9 Mysterious Refugees: Social Drama Ensues 178
18. 10 Islands and Images of Flight around Europe’s Southern Rim: Trouble in Heterotopia 197
19. Section IV Stories of Smuggling, Trauma, and Rescue
20. 11 “If We Die, We Die Together” Risking Death at Sea in Search of Safety 217
21. 12 En Route to Hell: Dreams of Adventure and Traumatic Experiences among West African ‘Boat People’ to Europe 235
22. 13 Re-living Janga: Survivor Narratives 253
23. Afterword 269
24. Index 271