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Cinema as a Cultural Language of Migration: Visual Narratives, Identity Construction, and Social Adaptation

How cinema makes loss, memory, belonging and adaptation understandable. The study connects migration with cultural ways of representing human experience.

AuthorsKristina Nosova, Igor Leonov
Manuscript / version date2026-07-16
AvailabilityИсследование · SSRN

Research question & overview

Cinema is examined as a space in which migration becomes visible through images, memory and narrative. The focus is identity formation between a previous and a new social environment.

This collaboration between Kristina Nosova and Igor Leonov extends an interest in how a person is represented to others. Cultural narratives contribute lived experience that formal categories and documents cannot fully convey.

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7130139

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Kristina Nosova, Igor Leonov. (2026). Cinema as a Cultural Language of Migration: Visual Narratives, Identity Construction, and Social Adaptation. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7130139

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