Resumen: Narrating Space and Time in Migration Ruth Breeze Sarali Gintsburg Mike Baynham Migration is one of the defining issues of our time. The number of international migrants worldwide has grown enormously over the last half century, motivated by a series of extremely powerful pull and push factors at work on a global level. The scale of this phenomenon is such that today, on a global level, one in every thirty people lives in a country where he/she was not born, with the current number of migrants estimated at 270 million. Substantial numbers of these migrants originated in the Middle East and North Africa region, and also in sub-Saharan Africa, and were motivated, despite danger and hardship, by the promise of a better life elsewhere. Many of them have crossed the Mediterranean or negotiated complex land routes to Turkey and onwards to Europe, while others have remained in countries near their...
