Faïza Guène and postmigrant alliances, Lund University

I presented my research at the international conference “From Migration to Postmigrant Society: Memory, Identity and Social Inclusion” at Lund University, where I also co-organized the panel “Postmigrant Alliances in Literature, Politics, and Beyond” with Moritz Schramm. The panel brought together scholars from across Europe to reflect on coalition-building, solidarity, and the reimagining of belonging in postmigrant societies.

My paper, “A postmigrant approach to character networks: mapping relational patterns in Faïza Guène’s Kiffe Kiffe series,” examined how Guène’s fiction stages relations of support, tension, and social plurality in the French banlieue. By reading Kiffe Kiffe demain alongside Kiffe kiffe hier ?, I explored how literary form can illuminate changing patterns of belonging and alliance across time, and how contemporary fiction contributes to wider debates on postmigration in Europe.