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A Multimodal Approach to Picturebooks on Migration and Migrants book cover

1st Edition

A Multimodal Approach to Picturebooks on Migration and Migrants

Edited By Carmen Santamaría-García, Eija Ventola Copyright 2026
284 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume is the first edited collection that offers various theoretical and analytical perspectives on migration narratives in children’s picturebooks. The chapters presented have benefitted from theories such as multimodal social semiotics, systemic-functional multimodal discourse analysis, computer-assisted discourse analysis, multimodal critical discourse analysis, cognitive approaches, and... Read more

1 Picturebooks on migration and migrants: Multimodal perspectives

CARMEN SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA AND EIJA VENTOLA

PART I: Home(land), identity, and otherness in processes of migration

2 Multimodal study of the representation of migrants as ‘the others’ in a sample of picturebooks about migration

MARÍA MARTINEZ-LIROLA

3 Representations of ourselves: a blanket of visual tools in picturebooks on migration

CORAL CALVO-MATURANA

4 Building stories of value and identity: pragmatic inferences in children’s picturebooks about migration

LAURA ALBA-JUEZ

5 ‘Home is within’: ‘home’ and identity in picturebooks about migration

MARIA BÎRLEA, IZASKUN ELORZA, AND MARK MCGLASHAN

PART II: Memories and emotions in picturebooks on migration

6 Picturebooks broaching the emotional trauma of child war refugees: a systemic-functional semiotic analysis

LEN UNSWORTH

7 A systemic-functional analysis and comparison of two ‘picturebook journeys’

CHRISTIAN M. I. M. MATTHIESSEN AND FRANCISCO O. D. VELOSO

8 Visual metonymies of fear in picturebooks about Latin American migration to the U.S.

AGATA ŻELACHOWSKA AND IZASKUN ELORZA

PART III: Interaction, engagement, solidarity, and acceptance of diversity

9 A multimodal analysis of character–reader interaction in three picturebooks on migration

ARSENIO JESÚS MOYA-GUIJARRO AND CARMEN SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA

10 A difficult journey towards the unknown: a visual analysis of the trajectory of migrants seeking solidarity

VERÔNICA PEREIRA COITINHO CONSTANTY AND VIVIANE M. HEBERLE

PART IV: Picturebooks on migration: socialisation and education

11 What makes a good picturebook about migration and how can multimodal critical discourse analysis help us find the answer?

THERESA CATALANO AND XIAOYAN GU

12 Challenging our stance toward migrant children as language learners

KATHY G. SHORT

Biography

Carmen Santamaría- García is Associate Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain.

Eija Ventola is Emerita Professor with previous full professorships at universities in Finland, Austria, and Germany and guest professorships at various universities around the world, and is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

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