Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies

Front matter

IMISCOE Research Series

Wiebke Sievers Editor 7.

7 Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies

Preface

Migration is, without a doubt, a total social fact, to use Marcel Mauss’s vocabulary. It concerns the whole of society and has implications for all its institutions (economic, social, religious, political, etc.). Even though Mauss does not explicitly mention arts and culture among the spheres and institutions affected by total social facts, they generally are. In particular, migration has many diverse implications for arts, culture and cultural institutions that need to be thoroughly studied.

The present collective volume is doing precisely that under the guidance of the editor, Wiebke Sievers. The book is anchored in the work we have been encouraging together within the framework of the IMISCOE Standing Committee DIVCULT (Standing Committee on Superdiversity, Migration and Cultural Change) since the creation of IMISCOE.

I would like to mention three main characteristics which make this volume a valuable contribution to the study of the links between migration (and also the post-migration situation), arts and culture. First, the book moves away from the conventional assimilationnist and integrationnist paradigms in migration studies. Instead of examining how migrants and their descendants fit into the existing artistic and cultural spheres and institutions — how they assimilate or integrate into them — the book examines how they are active factors of cultural and artistic change and how they contribute to the transformation of arts and culture. This is clearly an approach that we have tried to promote within DIVCULT, recognizing that conventional paradigms fall short in making sense of the cultural dynamics associated with migration and post-migration.

Second, the book privileges both a multidisciplinary and a cross-artistic and cultural domains approach. The authors come from various academic disciplines (anthropology, cultural theory, human geography, literary studies, sociology, etc.) and are interested in different artistic and cultural disciplines and domains (literature, music, carnivals, museums, etc.). A multidisciplinary and even a transdisciplinary approach is, in my view, necessary to grasp the multifaceted dimensions of the links between migration, post-migration, arts and culture. Examining various artistic and cultural domains and disciplines also allows us to get away from specialized area studies (theatre studies, hi-hop studies, etc.) and to gain a better global vi Preface understanding of the connections between migration, post-migration and cultural change.

Third, the book stimulates the dialogue between academic and non-academic social actors interested in the same issues. This dialogue is cross-fertilizing. On the one hand, academics disconnected from the ‘field’ can rapidly be satisfied with conversation between academics — which runs the risk of perpetuating the same discourses away from the realities of the daily cultural dynamics. On the other hand, non-academic actors are often willing to take a moment away from their daily constraints to think about what they are doing in more theoretical terms. A dialogue with academics can be helpful here for them, too. In other words, the dialogue offers a win-win perspective for all the stakeholders concerned by the topic of the book.

To conclude, this book is a highly positive contribution to the work we have been promoting in our research committee, and I hope that it will encourage both our members to continue their efforts and non-members to join us in developing projects.

Brussels, 10 August 2023 Marco Martiniello

Acknowledgements

This book has come into being thanks to the IMISCOE Standing Committee Superdiversity, Migration and Cultural Change (DIVCULT). Some of the chapters were first presented at the 17th IMISCOE Annual Conference in 2020, the first to be held online due to the Covid 19 pandemic. I would like to thank all colleagues and friends from the Standing Committee and beyond for their comments and suggestions that helped to develop both the framework for the book and the individual chapters.

Partly due to the pandemic, it has taken much longer than I hoped to finalise the book, and I would like to thank all the contributors both for their patience and for all the work they have invested in this project.

I am also very grateful to the anonymous peer reviewers whose comments helped us to further consolidate and clarify our arguments. Of course, the responsibility for the result of our work lies with the individual authors.

Without the funding of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), we would not have been able to afford a thorough proofreading of all chapters and the open-access publication of this book.

Last but not least, many thanks go to Jenny Money for correcting and proofreading this book.

Contents

1 Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies: Re-imagining Wiebke Sievers

Part I How to Conceive Change: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

2 How to Tell the History of Cultural Change Through Migration: Wiebke Sievers

3 Continuity or Change? How Migrants’ Musical Activities Michael Parzer and Ana Mijić

4 Doing Reflexive Migration Research in Cultural Institutions: Rikke Gram, Lars Bädeker, and Antonie Schmiz

Joanna Jurkiewicz and Jens Schneider

Part II Cultural Encounters: Locations of Change and Their Impact Beyond the Local

6 Transforming Italy Through Literature and Cinema? Voices Annalisa Frisina and Sandra Agyei Kyeremeh

7 How Does “Migrant” and “World” Music Change Local and National Cultures? An Insight from the Cologne Carnival, Monika Salzbrunn in collaboration with Birgit Ellinghaus x Contents

8 What About Words? Activism and Cultural Change Christine Delhaye

9 Can Micro Practices Change National Heritage? Norwegian Karolina Nikielska-Sekuta

Part III Research, the Arts and Cultural Production: Joint Ventures for Change

10 Collaborations Between Academics, Artists and Activists: Transforming Public Understandings and Representations of Migration ISES u... ae 181 Umut Erel

11 Refugees in a Multimedia Dialogue: A Methodology that Inspires the Creation of New Narratives on Migration Martina Kamm and Lhamo Meyer

12 Culture as Deconstruction and Participation? Reflections Melissa Moralli and Pierluigi Musarö

13 Youth in the City: Fostering Transcultural Leadership for Social Chanie 6 202 5e ie hearse baste OLB ARAR Rend ae oes 237 Matteo Dutto, Francesco Ricatti, Luca Simeone, and Rita Wilson

About the Authors

Lars Bädeker is a cultural anthropologist and ethnologist. He was a research fellow at the Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück from 2018 to 2021. He has studied Anglistics, American Studies and European Ethnology in Kiel and holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from Uppsala University. He has conducted field research on nationalism and identity in Turkey and worked as a research assistant at Ludwigsburg Museum, where he curated the exhibition “Little America”. As part of the IMIS project on “Cultural Production in the Migration Society”, he did long-term ethnographic fieldwork on the role of cultural institutions, especially museums, in a polarised urban society in the city of Dresden.

Christine Delhaye is Senior Lecturer in cultural theory and policy in the Department of Arts and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She is programme director of the MA in Arts, Culture and Politics and of the Minor Fashion Studies. Her research analyses a broad range of effects of cultural globalisation. One strand focuses on migration and dynamics in the cultural field, with a special focus on diversity policies. The other strand is on the global circulation of fashion in a neoliberal market. She has published, inter alia, “Depoliticizing Literature, Politicizing Diversity: Ethno-racial Boundaries in Dutch Literary Professionals’ Aesthetic Repertoires”, in Identities, 26(2), 184-202 (2019) (with Timo Koren); and “The Production of African Wax Cloth in a Neoliberal Global Market: Vlisco and the Processes of Imitation and Appropriation”, in E. Gaugele and M. Titton (Eds.), Fashion and Postcolonial Critique, pp. 247-59. Sternberg Press (2019).

Matteo Dutto is Senior Research Manager at the Monash University European Research Foundation and Associate Research Fellow in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. His research explores how cultural producers collaborate with migrant, multi-ethnic and indigenous communities to produce transmedia and transcultural counter-narratives of belonging and identity. He employs decolonial and digital research methodologies to develop impactful participatory-action projects focusing on the links between screen arts, xi xii About the Authors migration and processes of transculturation in contemporary Italy and Australia, as well as on the rich and complex history of entanglements between Italian migrants and indigenous people in settler-colonial contexts. His monograph Legacies of Indigenous Resistance was published in 2019 by Peter Lang, Oxford, and shortlisted in 2021 for the ASAL Alvie Egan Award. His most recent publications include “A Migrant Filmmaker at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy: Alessandro Cavadini’s Ningla A-Na (1972) as a transcultural space of encounter”, in Australian Historical Studies, 53(4), (2022); “Sport, Social Inclusion and the Logic of Assimilation in Prato (Italy)”, in International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(1) (2022); and “Transcultural Urban Re-imaginings: Ephemeral and Participatory Art Interventions in the Macrolotto Zero Neighborhood”, in On_Culture, 10 (2020).

Birgit Ellinghaus has a long record of work in culture and music, supporting, recording, presenting and touring artists from all over the world. She has worked with exiled musicians, directed cultural centres and, since 1989, has ben a director of the alba KULTUR - Office for global music in Cologne, Germany. Since 1997, she has been active as a music publisher and producer and has released more than 25 international CDs on her own world-music label Heaven and Earth. She is a guest columnist and works for German radio stations as an author for features on world music and as a writer for various programmes. As an advisor and expert, she has worked with German city councils, Ministries of Culture in Germany and internationally, the European Music Council and The Music Council NRW. She initiated and cooperated with various European and global networks: from 2019 to 2022, she directed “Migrants Music Manifesto” in Cologne, which was the German part of an EU-funded network on music and migration. She is a mentor for musicians and cultural managers in Asia and Africa and a lecturer at universities and for international scientific conferences. She served as jury member for BabelMedMusic 2011, 2012 and 2016, WOMEX 2014 and for the European Festival Label Award EFFE 2015 and 2017 and others. In 2017/2018, she was a board member of the Federation of Independent Music Professionals in Cologne IFM e.V. Since the year 2000, she is curator and head of network for Klangkosmos NRW - the network of global music in North-Rhine-Westphalia/Germany. From 2012 to 2016, she served as curator for the world music series “Underway” by Berliner Philharmonie. Since 2016, she has been a curator for the world music series at Frankfurt Old Opera House and, since 2017, at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In 2009, she was appointed by the German UNESCO Commission as a member of the Advisory Board in the National Committee of Culture.

Umut Erel is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Research Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice at the Open University, UK. She has widely published on migration, ethnicity, gender and class. She is interested in how these issues play out in practices of citizenship, differentiated along gender and ethnic lines. She has undertaken a number of research and impact projects using participatory, arts-based methods. She was Principal Investigator (with Prof. Maggie O’ Neill, University of York and Prof. Tracey Reynolds, University of Greenwich) of

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PASAR - Participation Arts and Social Action in Research, funded by the ESRC - investigating the potential of participatory theatre and walking as research methods for the social sciences. She was PI, with Prof. Tracey Reynolds (CI) of an AHRC networking activity on migrant mothers’ citizenship and participatory theatre, “Migrant Mothers Caring for the Future”. She has co-led the Open University’s contribution to the Whoareweproject.com, a collaboration with arts and activists at the Tate Exchange (since 2016). Recent publications include “Enacting intersectional multilayered citizenship: Kurdish women’s politics”, in Gender, Place & Culture, 2019 (with Necla Acik); “Borders, risk and belonging: Challenges for arts-based research in understanding the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants ‘at the borders of humanity’”, in Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, 2019 (with Maggie O’ Neill, Erene Kaptani, Tracey Reynolds); “Cultural capital and social networks in migration: A dynamic spatio-temporal approach”, in Sociology, 2018 (with Louise Ryan); “Participatory theatre for transformative social research”, in Qualitative Research, 2017 (with Tracey Reynolds and Erene Kaptani).

Annalisa Frisina is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department FISPPA (Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology), University of Padova, where she teaches qualitative and visual methods for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students. Her main research interests are in the sociology of racism and migrations, from a post- and de-colonial perspective. Her participatory video “Decolonising the City: Visual Dialogues in Padova” received two Visual Research Awards in 2021 from the International Visual Sociology Association (AntiColonial and AntiRacist Award for Visual Activism) and from the Festival DocuCity/ MetiCittà, University of Milan in cooperation with the Museum of Cultures. She is the Scientific Supervisor for the University of Padova Unit in the national research project “MOBS. Mobilities, solidarities and imaginaries across the borders”. Recent publications include: “Music and words against racism: A qualitative study with racialized artists in Italy”, in Ethnic and Racial Studies (with Sandra Agyei Kyeremeh, 2022); “Art and counter-racialization processes: A qualitative research journey with Italy’s illegitimate children”, in Studi Culturali (with Sandra Agyei Kyeremeh, 2021); and a book entitled Contemporary Racisms: Sociological Perspectives (Carocci, 2020).

Rikke Gram is a junior curator at the Museum Pankow, Berlin. From 2019 to 2021, she was a research fellow at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. Between 2015 and 2018, she was a Master’s student of European Ethnology working at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Previously, she completed a Master’s degree in History and International Development at Roskilde University. Among her recent publications are “Willkommen im Museum: making and unmaking refugees in the Multaka Projekt”, in the anthology Doing diversity in museums and heritage: A Berlin ethnography (2022, ed. Sharon Macdonald) and Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste Working Paper No. 3/2022: “Germany’s history of returning human remains and objects xiv About the Authors from colonial contexts: An overview of successful cases and unsettled claims between 1970 and 2021” (2022, with Zoe Schoofs).

Joanna Jurkiewicz is a sociologist and art historian. From 2019 to 2021, she was a research fellow at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück. There, she conducted field research on the role of migration in culture production in the South German town of Sindelfingen. She is interested in the historical and current entanglements of culture production and integration discourses in the context of German immigration history. In her interdisciplinary research, she draws on methods and perspectives from sociology and visual studies, as well as urban and regional studies.

Martina Kamm holds a degree in German Literature, Sociology and Social Psychology from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2009, she has been a director of the interdisciplinary platform Face Migration and a freelance researcher in the field of migration. With her colleagues, she aims to study new phenomena of migration in a transdisciplinary way. These research results are presented to a larger public by artistic means such as film, music, photography, text and video. From 2001 to 2009, Martina Kamm was researcher and project coordinator at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchätel, Switzerland. She conducted various research projects related to migration and integration: the cultural identities of migrants, migration and literature, asylum, discrimination, migration and health and citizenship, including the multimedia travelling exhibition “No Child’s Play”. Since 2022, she has been developing and conducting a competence centre, “HORTUS”, for refugees in the city of Zurich, which includes participatory artistic projects, research and evaluation and an offer of complementary therapy for traumatised refugees and their families.

Sandra Agyei Kyeremeh holds a PhD in Social Sciences. Drawing from her PhD thesis, she investigated “The gender and colour of Italian sport: An ethnographical research among sporting women with or without foreign origins”. She conducted postdoctoral research on “Doing anti-racism through the arts: A qualitative and visual research with ‘young Italians without citizenship’”. Her research interests are linked to the multiple identities and belongings of children of foreign heritage, born and/or raised in Italy and to whom citizenship rights are often denied. She is also interested in racialisation processes, sport, gender studies, post-colonial studies and visual methods. She joined “InteRGrace-Interdisciplinary-Intersectional Research Group on Race and Racism” and collaborates with “SLANG-Slating Gaze on Social Control, Labour, Racism and Migrations” research group (2017-2020). Recent publications include: “Music and words against racism: A qualitative study with racialized artists in Italy”, in Ethnic and Racial Studies (with Annalisa Frisina, 2022); “Art and counter-racialization processes: A qualitative research journey with Italy’s illegitimate children”, in Studi Culturali (with Annalisa Frisina, 2021); and “Whitening Italian sport: The construction of ‘Italianness’ in national sporting fields”, in The International Review for the Sociology of Sport (2019).

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Lhamo Meyer holds a degree in Sociology with a specialisation in the Governance of Migration and Diversity from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (2018). Currently, she is working in the field of participative social urban development at Ampio Partizipation GmbH in Zurich and is a member of the Swiss platform Face Migration. Interested in the social challenges of our society, Lhamo theoretically and practically deals with the subjects of migration, integration, diversity and social urban developments. From a multidisciplinary perspective and with a participative approach, she analyses current situations to find ways to create a better environment for different social groups. Her research interests are in urban sociology, cultural sociology and refugee and migration studies, applying participative research methods.

Ana Mijić is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna. She worked as a research assistant at the Berghof Foundation’s Institute for Peace Education, Tiibingen and in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna, where she completed her PhD. Her thesis on identity-related postwar transformations in Bosnia-Herzegovina was the recipient of multiple awards. She was a research fellow at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna and at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. Theoretically based within the sociology of knowledge, her research focuses on identity and ethnicity, on peace, conflict, postwar and migration. Ana Mijić is the author of Verletzte Identitäten (2014, Campus) as well as of several articles published in international journals (e.g. Journal of Refugee Studies, Human Studies, Ethnicities, Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power) and edited volumes.

Melissa Moralli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna. She was a visiting scholar at CRISES (Centre de Recherche sur les Innovations Sociales, Université du Québec 4 Montréal), IPK (Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University), CRISES Redefined (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and MESOPOLHIS (Aix-Marseille University, Sciences Po Aix and CNRS). She was the main researcher on the project “Atlas of Transitions: New Geographies for a Cross-Cultural Europe” and “Welcoming Spaces: Revitalising Shrinking Areas by Hosting Non-EU Migrants”. She is scientific coordinator of the international project “Collaborative imaginaries on territories in change across Europe” and author of many books, chapters and articles on migration, artistic production, social innovation and creative methods.

Pierluigi Musarö is Full Professor of Sociology, Culture and Communication in the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy. He is Honorary Professor at Melbourne University and Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, at the Institute for Public Knowledge- New York University (USA) and Monash University (Australia). He is the author of several books and papers in the field of media and migration, borders and human rights, performing arts and active citizenship. He is President of the Italian NGO xvi About the Authors

YODA, founding Director of IT.A.CÀ_migrants and travellers: Festival of Responsible Tourism and founding member of the Italian Network against Hate Speech.

Karolina Nikielska-Sekula is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Migration Research, University of Warsaw, and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Her current scholarly research focuses on migration studies (Central and Western Europe; Turkey), visual and sensory methodologies and heritage studies. Nikielska-Sekula received an MA in Sociology from AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and her PhD in interdisciplinary Culture Studies from the University of South- Eastern Norway. Her previous posts include Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of South-Eastern Norway, Marie Curie ESR at the Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) in Istanbul and the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute at the University of Deusto. Karolina is a member of INTEGRIM Lab and a co-editor of the book Visual Methodologies in Migration Studies: New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions (Springer, 2021).

Michael Parzer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna. He studied sociology and musicology at the University of Vienna. After his doctorate in 2008 (a thesis on musical taste and social inequality), he worked as a post-doctoral assistant in the Department of Sociology. From 2016 to 2018, he was the scientific director of Mediacult (International Research Institute for Media, Communication and Cultural Development, Vienna). His research focuses on migration, social inequality and culture. Additional research interests include the sociology of music and qualitative methods of social research. Recent publications include the article “Double burden of representation: How ethnic and refugee categorisation shapes Syrian migrants’ artistic practices in Austria”, in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(11) and two contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies, edited by Wolfgang Gratzer, Nils Grosch, Ulrike Präger and Susanne Scheiblhofer (2024).

Francesco Ricatti is Associate Professor and convenor of Italian Studies at The Australian National University. He has published extensively on the history of Italian migration to Australia, including his most recent book, Italians in Australia: History, Memory, Identity (Palgrave 2018). His most recent research focuses on decolonial and transcultural approaches to migration and ethnic history - including a special forum in the journal Altreitalie on decolonising Italian migration to Australia. Recent articles include “Migrant lives on first nation land: Greek- Australian memories of Titjikala in the 1960s”, in Journal of Intercultural Studies, 43(5), (2022); “Mio figlio & color pesca: Vita, attivismo e ricerca antirazzista”, Voci 19, (2022) and “Mapping transnational lives: Patterns of dislocation and reorientation in contemporary carto-graphic memoirs”, in Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2023). He has also conducted participatory projects and research on the

About the Authors xvii role of art and sport in informal processes of transculturation within superdiverse cities, including the project Youth in the City: La nostra Prato, which was supported by the National Geographic and the Scanlon Foundation.

Monika Salzbrunn is Full Professor of Religions, Migration and Arts at the University of Lausanne, invited Research Professor at the Università degli Studi di Genova and Associate Researcher at CESOR/EHESS Paris. She is the first female scientist in Switzerland to receive the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant in Social and Human Sciences, for her project on “ARTIVISM. Art and Activism. Creativity and Performance as Subversive Forms of Political Expression in Super-Diverse Cities”. Monika Salzbrunn was principal investigator of the projects “(In)visible Islam in the City. Material and Immaterial Expressions of Muslim Practices within Urban Spaces in Switzerland” and “Undocumented Mobility and Digital-Cultural Resources after the ‘Arab Spring’”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She has published numerous articles and books in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Japanese about political and religious performances in a context of migration and written several documentary films. She was Visiting Professor at the Japan Women’s University Tokyo and at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan. Her latest books and special issues include “Danses, musiques et (trans)nationalismes”, in Revue Europeenne des Migrations Internationales, 2019 (with Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Elina Djebbari); “A l'écoute des transnationalisations religieuses/Sounding religious transnationalism”, in Civilisations, 67, 2019 (with Stefania Capone); L’evenement (Im)previsible. Mobilisations Politiques et Dynamiques Religieuses, Beauchesne, 2019 (with Laurent Amiotte-Suchet) and L'Islam (In)visible en Ville. Appartenances et Engagements dans l’Espace Urbain, 2019.

Antonie Schmiz is Professor of Human Geography and head of the working group “Globalization, Transformation, Gender” at the Institute of Geographical Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests lie in migration-induced social diversity and its negotiation in cities. She is particularly interested in comparative and reflexive perspectives. From 2016 to 2019, Antonie held an assistant professorship for Geographical Migration Research at the Institute of Geography and was a member of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück. Previous work stations were at the Institute for Human Geography at Goethe University Frankfurt a. M., at the Ryerson Center for Immigration and Settlement (RCIS) at Toronto Metropolitan University and in the Institute of Geography at Humboldt University in Berlin. She holds a doctorate from Bremen University on the topic of transnational networks of Vietnamese entrepreneurs between Berlin and Vietnam. She studied geography, sociology and political sciences at Freie Universität Berlin and Bremen University. Recent publications include “The (co-)production of arrival neighbourhoods: Processes governing housing markets in three German cities”, in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (2022, with Heike Hanhoerster, Annegret Haase, Nils Hans, Dieter Rink and Sebastian Schrader); “Cities and migration: Bibliometric evidence from a spatially xviii About the Authors biased field of knowledge production”, in Geographical Review (2022 with Carsten Felgentreff, Martin Franz, Marcel Paul, Andreas Pott, Charlotte Räuchle and Sebastian Schrader) and “Ethnizität”, in Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe (eds. Inken Bartels, Isabella Löhr, Christiane Reinecke, Philipp Schäfer and Laura Stielike).

Jens Schneider studied Anthropology, Musicology and Linguistics at universities in Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Amsterdam. He finished his PhD on German postunification identities at the University of Tübingen and spent two years as a Post- Doc at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. His research experience includes several years of ethnographic fieldwork in Chile, Germany and Brazil. Since 2005, he has been guiding research projects in the field of Migration Studies, including the coordination of a large-scale comparative survey on the grown-up children of immigrant families from Turkey, Morocco and the Former Yugoslavia for the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Since 2012, he is Senior Researcher at the University of Osnabrück. His main research interests are and have been ethnic and national identity, urban diversity, second generation, education and cultural production in migration societies.

Wiebke Sievers is Senior Researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and Guest Researcher and Lecturer in the department of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Exile and Migration at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. She is a member of the ÖAW’s Commission for Migration and Integration Research. Her research concentrates on migration and culture in Austria and in international comparison, with her main interest being in literature. She also works on theatre, cultural policies and the financing of culture. Her other research foci include literary translation and the internationalisation of literature. She is chair of the IMISCOE Board of Directors. She coordinates, together with Marco Martiniello, the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Superdiversity, Migration and Cultural Change (DIVCULT). Recent publications include “‘Silence is golden’: Vladimir Vertlib’s literary explorations of silence in migration”, inMigration Studies,9(4), 2021; “Towards equality: Joining forces with arts and culture in the struggle for change in migration societies”, inComparative Migration Studies ,9(33), 2021; “Scale shifting: New insights into global literary circulation”, special issue of theJournal of World Literature, 2020 (with Peggy Levitt).

Luca Simeone works as a researcher, educator and professional consultant across interaction and service design, design management and innovation management — with a particular interest in critical and strategic thinking. Luca has conducted research and teaching activities at various universities (Harvard, MIT, Polytechnic University of Milan, Malmö University and University of the Arts London), (co-) authoring and (co-)editing some 60 publications and four books, including the recent Service design capabilities (with Nicola Morelli and Amalia de Götzen, Springer, 2020). Luca has also founded and managed successful companies and award-winning design firms operating in more than 30 countries and with commercial hubs in Milan, Singapore, Toronto and Doha (key clients include Procter &

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Gamble, Unilever, Dior, Sony). He currently serves as an associate professor at Aalborg University.

Rita Wilson is Professor in Translation Studies at Monash University, Founding Director of the Monash Intercultural Lab and Co-Director of the Monash-Warwick Migration, Identity and Translation Research Network. She is co-editor of The Translator and serves on the international advisory boards of Translation Studies; de genere. Journal of Literary, Postcolonial and Gender Studies, and Journal for Translation Studies in Africa. Her work contributes to a growing body of interdisciplinary research that focuses on the complexities of cross-cultural contact and the relationship between language, culture and social inclusion. Most recently, she has published on identity and culture in migratory contexts and on narratives of mobility and place-making. Recent publications include Translating Worlds: Migration, Memory, and Culture (Routledge 2020, edited with Susannah Radstone); “Writing the neighbourhood: Literary representations of language, space and mobility”, in Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and Translation, Liverpool University Press, 2020; and “Sites of translation in Melbourne”, in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City, 2021, 349-363.

Chapter 1 A Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies: si Re-imagining Communities Through Arts

and Cultural Activities

Wiebke Sievers

“Understanding who we are”. These words are imprinted on the wall of the Vorarlberg Museum, located in Bregenz, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Vorarlberg, which borders with Switzerland. This motto implies that there is a clearly demarcated “we” whose identity and culture can be defined and that it is the task of the museum to contribute to such a definition. The artist, writer and activist Mohammed Ali Bas, born in Vorarlberg of Turkish parents, aims to change this motto by crossing out “who” and replacing it with “where” so that the sentence reads “Understanding where we are”. With this modification, the artist aims to highlight that culture is not an essence of a people but is constantly changing. Migration has been one of the most important factors of such changes over recent decades in Europe. However, this has not necessarily found recognition in large cultural institutions, cultural policies and the related official local, regional and national narratives. Mohammed Ali Bas’ motto defines museums as places that help individuals and communities to understand where they stand in this process of cultural change initiated by migration. Where do we stand between the exclusion of migrants as others from national narratives and traditions invented in the nineteenth century and the emergence of new narratives that include them and enable their social, political and cultural participation?