{"id":522,"date":"2022-10-29T22:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ugr.es\/migra-cin-es\/?page_id=522"},"modified":"2022-10-30T00:02:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T22:02:42","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ugr.es\/migra-cin-es\/en\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"INTRODUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c[\u2026] immigration has been in the spotlight of cinema almost since its beginnings. <\/span><\/p>\n

For this reason, the possibilities offered by the history of cinema <\/span><\/p>\n

to reflect on human movements and migratory <\/span><\/p>\n

flows are vast.\u201d (Javier de Lucas, 2004)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Clearly, cinema has always been interested in migration as a phenomenon to be represented. But it is perhaps more recent that migration studies are interested in how this phenomenon is represented through cinematographic fiction. Suffice it to say now that the prestigious The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration<\/a> (Ness, 2013) devoted up to fourteen entries to this confluence of the study of migration through film. It is with this relevance that the International Organization for Migration (IOM) counts on to promote since 2017 (in its first edition) an International Migration Film Festival<\/a> (with screenings around the world). What the IOM intends with this is to promote a critical awareness of the phenomenon itself: \u00abOver the years, films have been used to inform, entertain, educate and generate debates\u00bb. It is in this spirit that the IOM launched this Festival, as can be read on the Festival’s website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, aware of this, we have been trying for some time to promote a line of research on film and migration at the Migration Institute<\/a> of the University of Granada<\/a>. After some approaches (Abuladze, Esteban Bretones, & Garc\u00eda Casta\u00f1o, 2012; Esteban Bretones, Abuladze, & Garc\u00eda Casta\u00f1o, 2012 and Garc\u00eda Casta\u00f1o, Esteban Bretones & Abuladze, 2012), we tried to consolidate the initiative with an annual offer of a free configuration subject in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Granada entitled <\/span>Cinema and Migrations <\/span><\/i>-it was offered from the academic year 2010\/11 to 2015\/16-. Then we would promote several activities from the PhD Program in Migration Studies at the University of Granada:<\/span><\/p>\n