This book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international relations: migration as a profoundly transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world. It explores contemporary arts critical engagement with migration and globalisation as a key source for improving our understanding of how these processes transform identities, cultures, institutions and geopolitics. The author explores three interwoven issues of enduring interest: identity and belonging, institutional visibility and recognition of migrant artists, and the interrelations between aesthetics and politics, including the balancing of aesthetics, politics and ethics in representations of forced migration.

Anne Ring Petersen is Associate Professor of Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen

Introduction1 Globalisation-from-above and globalisation-from-below2 The politics of identity and recognition in the 'global art world'3 The artist as migrant worker4 Mining the museum in an age of migration5 Identification, disidentification and the imaginative reconfiguration of identity6 Migrant geographies and European politics of irregular migrationConclusionIndex