Art and Architecture of Migration and Discrimination

<p>This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan Turkey and their diasporas in Europe. Together the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media including architecture painting postcards film music and literature that has responded to the partitions of the twentieth century and the Muslim diasporas in Europe.</p><p>Turkey and Pakistan have been subject to two of the largest compulsory population transfers of the twentieth century. They have also been the sites for large magnitudes of emigration during the second half of the twentieth century creating influential diasporas in European cities such as London and Berlin. Discrimination has been both the cause and result of migration: while internal problems compelled citizens to emigrate from their countries blatant discriminatory and ideological constructs shaped their experiences in their countries of arrival. Read together the Partition emerges from the essays in Part I not as a pathology specific to the Balkans Middle East or South Asia but as a central problematic of the new political realities of decolonization and nation formation. The essays in Part II demonstrate the layered histories and multiple migration paths that have shaped the experiences of Berliners and Londoners. </p><p>This analysis furthers the study of modernism and migration across the borders of not only the nation-state but also class race and gender. As a result this book will be of interest to a broad multidisciplinary academic audience including students and faculty artists architects and planners as well as non-specialist general public interested in visual arts architecture and urban literature.</p>