Deborah Reed-Danahay is Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA.

Helena Wulff is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Introduction: Unsettling Migrant Narratives 1. Exploring the Immigrant Novel: Blurred Genres, Embodied Identities, and the Unsettling Migration Experience 2. "I Dream of Cabo Verde Every Night Now:" Reflections on/from Writers in the Diaspora 3."The love of the people - my reward": Sam Selvon's Legacy in Caribbean London 4. Imaginaries of Belonging in Middle-Class Relocation Narratives: The French in London 5. Capturing Comedy, and Tragedy: Emplacement Strategies in Migrant Writing from Sweden 6. Migrants' Self-Narrations as Cultural Critique: Exploring Political Subjectivities through Asylum Seekers' and Returnees' Narratives and Literature 7.The Anthropologist as Observant Reader of Migrant Literature: The Case of Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong 8. At the Unsettling Limits of Collaborative Life Writing: A Memoir of An Ethnography-Memoir 9. Scrolling through Unheard Voices: Unaccompanied Child Migrant Narratives on Social Media; Afterword: Migrants, Anthropologists, and Writing

This book brings fresh perspectives to the anthropology of migration. It focuses on what migrants write and how anthropologists may incorporate insights gained from engagement with this writing into research methods and writing practices.