Arising from the legacies of the twentieth century - unprecedented worldwide migration, unrelenting global conflict and warring, unchecked materialist consumption, and unconscionable environmental degradation - are important questions about the toll of loss such changes exact, individually and collectively. As large-scale and ubiquitous as these changes are, their deep specificity re-inscribes the importance of place as a critical construct. Attending to such specificity emphasizes the interconnections between contexts and broader movements and remains a prudent route to articulating critical interconnections among places and peoples in complex times. This book of essays turns to such specificity as a means to examine the inflections of migration on identity- displacement, disorientation, loss, and difference- as sites of both regression and possibility. Fusing autobiography and cultural analysis, it provides a framework for a critical education attuned to such concerns.

Considers inflections of change, loss and identity in relation to transmigration in order to discern the nature of a critical education framed by a concern for these conditions

Towards an Educational Discourse of Loss and Place Losing Place: Reluctant Leavings and Ambivalent Returns Writing 'The Distance Home': Migration, Mourning and Difference in Lawrence O'Toole's Heart's Longing The Word, For Loss:  Literacy, Longing and Belonging in Kevin Major's Ann and Seamus The Place of Reparation:  Loss, Ambivalence and Teaching Separation, (Re)connection and a Transformative Education of Place Loss, Place, and Education