MELILF
Migration and Everyday Life in Iberian Literature and Film

Based at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, this multilingual project seeks to develop a multidisciplinary approach to the study of immigration and everyday life in contemporary Spain. The main goal of the project is to maintain a site where scholars and teachers in Italy and abroad can learn about recent literature and film on immigration produced in Spain. It also seeks to create a space where scholars can share their research and establish scholarly connections through their work and academic interests. While the site is mainly focused on literature and film, this project will incorporate studies on migration from a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology and sociology. Recognizing that only an integrated approach will be able to illustrate the complex relationship that takes place between the micro-level (i.e. individual representations) and the macro-level (i.e. social and cultural representations), this project aims to create opportunities for scholarly collaboration between multiple countries, cultures and disciplines through invited essays, digital publications and workshops, conferences and meetings.

Some of questions we examine in the studies we publish in this site and invite our collaborators to consider are:

• What distinguishes everyday life within Spain (and in the larger context of the Mediterranean region)?
• Are there particular experiences that achieve a specific and unique representation, or theoretical response in film and literature?
• How does the experience of exile affect Mediterranean identity?
• How do recent conflicts in terms of political uprisings and revolutions, war, etc. affect immigration trends and the experience of everyday life?

The final outcome of the project is the compilation and maintenance of current scholarly work and didactic materials on contemporary issues of migration in Spain as well as a general view of how cultural exchanges take place in our globalised world.