Resumen de Migration and Empathy
This essay is a meditation on the contemporary migration and refugee crisis, the history of Irish emigration, and Joyce's awareness and treatment of such issues. It begins by discussing the official definitiions and political impacts of the terms "migrant" and "refugee," followed by an investigation of the risks and often tragic consequences of attempts to "migrate" to a better life (both nowadays and in the past). The second half of the essay explores how Joyce's texts treat such issues and their relationship to the politics and complexities of our contemporary moment—leading to an argument about the need for identificatory empathy or what I call "reverse parallax."
