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This chapter introduces the book “Entangled Histories of Art and Migration. Theories, Sites and Research Methods” which is dedicated to the stories of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and exiles. The book asks how these are interwoven with art, art practices, activism, reception, and (re-)presentation and explores the complex entanglements of art and aesthetic practices with migration, flight, and other forms of enforced dislocation and border/border crossings in global contexts - the latter significant phenomena of social transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries. In line with the book's endeavor and plea for a fundamental change in understanding the ambiguity of migrant positions, be they cultural references, origins, myths, and future perspectives, the introduction provides an overview of existing research in the diverse field of migration research and art studies, and demonstrates how this edited volume fills an existing lack of a dynamic transdisciplinary research, which is referred to as a ‘migratory turn’ in art-related studies. With its organisation in different thematic sections Visibilities | Invisibilities, Sites | Spaces, Materiality | Materialisation, Racism | Resistance, Practices | Performativity, the chapter explains how the edited volume and its 26 contributions take the entanglements centre stage, when migration shapes forms and aesthetics (and vice versa), when actors employ image politics and visualisation strategies in and about migration at different times and places, or when materialities, sites, and spaces gain importance for decision-making processes.

Keywords: 20th and 21st Century ; Agency ; Architecture ; Art ; Artistic Research ; Critical Migration Studies ; Entanglement ; In/Visibilities ; Materiality/Materialisation ; Performativity ; Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies ; Practices Other/Alternative Epistemologies ; Racism ; Resistance ; Sites/Spaces

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