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Introduction: Aesthetic Practices And Politics In Media, Music, And Art / Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-hornung, And Johanna C. Kardux -- Border Crossings And (trans)nationalism In Film. Paradigms Of Attitudes Towards Immigration: Science Fiction Films As Allegories In The Mid-century / Juan Bruce-novoa -- No Country For Old Certainties: Ambivalence, Hybridity, And Dangerous Crossings In Three Borderland Films / Page Laws -- Bodies And Hybrid Tropes: Border Crossings In Recent Films / Cathy Covell Waegner -- From Alien Nation To Alienation: Tracing The Figure Of The Guest Worker In Fatih Akin's Gegen Die Wand / Tessa C. Lee -- Lunch With The Bigot: 9/11 In Bollywood's Filmic Imagination / Mita Banerjee -- Migrant Adaptations In Television. Invisible Ethnicity: Canadian Erasure, Vanishing Dutchness / Aritha Van Herk -- Performing Linguistic Identity And Integration: The Politics Of Interpellation In The Catalonian Media / Klaus Zilles -- The Trans/migrant In The Spotlight: Space And Movement In Brazilian Telenovelas / Gundo Rial Y Costas -- Traveling Sounds: Music And Migration. Migratory Objects In The Balkans: When The Sound Of The Other Sounds Strangely Familiar / Maria Boletsi -- Variations On A Fugitive's Song: The Performance Of Disappearance And Forced Migration In Chile / Nicols Salazar-sutil -- Immigration And Modernism: Arnold Schoenberg And The Los Angeles émigrés / Kenneth H. Marcus -- Performing Ethnicity And Migration: Cultural And Artistic Practices. Ethnic Nostalgia: Ethnicity As Cultural Practice In The Twenty-first Century / Marcus Embry -- Connoisseurs Of Urban Life: Aesthetic Practices And The Everyday Among Japanese Migrants In New York City / Olga Kanzaki Sooudi -- All Islands Connect Under Water: Ping Chong's Undesirable Elements Series / Roberta De Martini. Edited By Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-hornung, And Johanna C. Kardux. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.