Between Waiting and Isolation: Asylum Seeking in Contemporary French Graphic Nov-els

Authors

  • María de los Ángeles Hernández Gómez Université Clermont Auvergne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25145/j.cedille.2022.22.16

Keywords:

migration, asylum seeking, waiting, graphic novel, reception

Abstract

This article proposes the study and analysis of three contemporary French language graphic novels dedicated to the representation of the asylum application procedure for exiled persons on French territory. Committed to current affairs, these graphic novels are fundamentally in-terested in reception, drawing attention to the need to improve the management of migrant populations on their arrival in Europe, in France. Prisonniers du passage (2019), Félicité (2019) and Village global (2019) trace, through a combination of text and drawing, the administrative and social difficulties faced by asylum seekers. The proposed analyses are approached in a perspective of dialogue with migration studies in social geography and the sociology of migration.

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Published

2022-12-05

Issue

No. 22 (2022): Çédille 22

Section

Varia

How to Cite

Hernández Gómez, María de los Ángeles. 2022. “Between Waiting and Isolation: Asylum Seeking in Contemporary French Graphic Nov-Els”. Çédille, Journal of French Studies, no. 22 (December): 331-52. https://doi.org/10.25145/j.cedille.2022.22.16.