Written vs Audiovisual Testimony: Narrating the Migrant Self is the degree scroll of the discussion paper that ISSA School of Management Assistants professor Ana Belén Martínez presented at the University of Oslo (Norway) at the end of September. Her exhibition was part of the International Workshop on Erratic Bodies, Transitional Borders, and Recent Migration in Europe: Representation and Identity Negotiations in Public Discourse, Literature and Arts.

In her work, she analyzed the coincidences in the online and offline testimonial speech of the young Syrian refugee, Nujeen Mustafa. "In the context of what has been called the migration crisis or refugee crisis, attention is rarely paid to what these people, whether they are called migrants, emigrants, immigrants, refugees, or exiles, say about themselves. It is vitally important to stop to think and reflect on highly contested categories that do not always define the reality of these people's lives. To begin with, the emphasis is usually placed on the reasons that cause displacement, when perhaps the core topic is in understanding a much more complex status ," says Professor Martinez.

The meeting was attended by some thirty experts from different fields such as Philology, Sociology, Philosophy or International Law, motivated by the idea of collaborating in a joint and interdisciplinary way to better understand the phenomenon of migration and help as far as possible to dispel myths associated with these issues.