Migrating and Other Arts
Writings Out of Place
The texts in Migrating and Other Arts: Writings Out of Place accompany Peruvian writer Claudia Salazar Jiménez through her twenty years as a migrant in the United States. In this collection of chronicles, diary entries, notes, and social media posts, the author explores what it means to live in another country—the sense of dislocation and crossing, but also what it means to challenge borders altogether. Food, airports, weather, gestures of kindness, and misunderstandings make up the puzzle of a life in motion and become the protagonists of the various fragments that shape these pages.
This book, which is itself a journey, celebrates all the lives of those who have moved, are moving, or will move.
“What do you carry in your suitcase?” they ask the narrator.
“Books,” is always the answer.
Migrating and Other Arts offers an essential voice in the ongoing conversation about migration, identity, and cultural belonging. The author invites readers into an intimate, fragmentary portrait of diasporic life that is both deeply personal and politically resonant.
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Original Language
SPANISH (Perú) | Caja Negra
SPANISH (Spain) | Smol Books
