A strong new e book that provides a contemporary perspective on migration, identification and inventive expression was launched yesterday on the College of Cambridge. Titled Crossings: Migrant Knowledges Migrant Types, the e book is co-edited by Kenyan tutorial Dr Natalya Din Kariuki, Professor Shubha Mukherji of Cambridge College and Rowan Williams, the previous Archbishop of Canterbury.
The e book brings collectively voices from throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, the Center East and the Americas. It explores how folks carry information, reminiscence and kind after they transfer. Not simply borders and displacement, however meals, music, language, tales and methods of being. It’s a deeply reflective and well timed assortment for a world nonetheless battling methods to discuss migration.
The launch befell at Magdalene School, Cambridge, and gathered writers, artists, teachers and cultural practitioners from all over the world. It was not a regular tutorial occasion. It was a full day of dialog, listening and change, rooted in actual expertise and deep considering.
Dr Natalya Din Kariuki, who teaches on the College of Warwick, spoke about how migration shapes extra than simply motion. It additionally shapes kind, the methods folks inform tales, specific identification and make which means from reminiscence. She spoke with quiet authority and readability, drawing from her personal journey and the lengthy histories that inform it.
Professor Mukherji and Rowan Williams mirrored on how the e book was constructed. It’s not about responding to headlines, however about providing house to consider what migration creates, not simply what it takes away.
For South Africa, the place motion and belonging are lived realities, this e book arrives with specific relevance. From exile and return, to creative change, to on a regular basis crossings of language and place, migration is a part of how the nation thinks, creates and remembers.
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges Migrant Types shall be revealed by punctum books later this 12 months and made out there globally in each print and open entry.
