By conversing with the main bodies of relevant literature from Migration Studies and Memory Studies, this overview highlights how analysing memories can contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of migrant incorporation. The chapters consider international case studies from Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.

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MICHÈLE BAUSSANT Researcher in anthropology at the CNRS, France MARY J. HICKMAN Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology at London Metropolitan University, UK HANS LEAMAN Ph.D. candidate in History and Renaissance Studies at Yale University, USA KELVIN E.Y. LOW Assistant Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore KEVIN MYERS Senior Lecturer in Social History and Education at the University of Birmingham, UK JOSEFINE RAASCH Currently at the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia MORIEL RAM Ph.D student in the department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, Israel MACHTELD VENKEN Senior postdoctoral researcher and Lise Meitner Fellow at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and the Public Sphere in Vienna JAY WINTER Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University, USA HAIM YACOBI Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University and a Marie-Curie fellowat Cambridge University, UK.

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List of Illustrations Foreword; J.Winter Notes on Contributors The Memory and Migration Nexus: An Overview; I.Glynn & J.O.Kleist PART I: MIGRANT MEMORIES Cultures of History:The New Left, South Asians, and Historical Memory in Post-war England; K.Meyers 'I am also a foreigner, but with me it's different': Polish Displaced Persons, War Memory and Ethnification in Belgium; M.Venken Using History to Relate: How Teenagers in Germany Use History to Orient Themselves Between Nationalities; J.Raasch PART II: MEMORIES IN DIVERSE SOCIETIES Caught between Two Worlds: The Europeans of Algeria in France after 1962; M.Baussant Remembering Egypt: Evangelicals, Conservatism and Immigration in America; H.B.Leaman African Asylum Seekers and the Changing Politics of Memory in Israel; M.Ram & H.Yacobi Past Migrations, Contemporary Representations and Complex Multicultures in London; M.J.Hickman , H.Crowley & N.Mai PART III: MIGRATION MEMORIES AND THE STATE Famine Commemorations and Asylum Debates in Ireland Conflated; I.Glynn Migrant Incorporation and Political Memories: Transformations of Civic and Cultural Belonging in Australia since 1949; J.O.Kleist Songs for the Nation: Migrant Pasts and Global Futures in Singapore; K.E.Y.Low Notes Index