Carmen Santamaría- García is Associate Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain.Eija Ventola is Emerita Professor with previous full professorships at universities in Finland, Austria, and Germany and guest professorships at various universities around the world, and is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

• 1 Picturebooks on migration and migrants: Multimodal perspectives CARMEN SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA AND EIJA VENTOLAPART I: Home(land), identity, and otherness in processes of migration 2 Multimodal study of the representation of migrants as ‘the others’ in a sample of picturebooks about migration MARÍA MARTINEZ-LIROLA3 Representations of ourselves: a blanket of visual tools in picturebooks on migration CORAL CALVO-MATURANA4 Building stories of value and identity: pragmatic inferences in children’s picturebooks about migration LAURA ALBA-JUEZ5 ‘Home is within’: ‘home’ and identity in picturebooks about migration MARIA BÎRLEA, IZASKUN ELORZA, AND MARK MCGLASHANPART II: Memories and emotions in picturebooks on migration 6 Picturebooks broaching the emotional trauma of child war refugees: a systemic-functional semiotic analysis LEN UNSWORTH7 A systemic-functional analysis and comparison of two ‘picturebook journeys’ CHRISTIAN M. I. M. MATTHIESSEN AND FRANCISCO O. D. VELOSO8 Visual metonymies of fear in picturebooks about Latin American migration to the U.S. AGATA ŻELACHOWSKA AND IZASKUN ELORZAPART III: Interaction, engagement, solidarity, and acceptance of diversity 9 A multimodal analysis of character–reader interaction in three picturebooks on migration ARSENIO JESÚS MOYA-GUIJARRO AND CARMEN SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA10 A difficult journey towards the unknown: a visual analysis of the trajectory of migrants seeking solidarity VERÔNICA PEREIRA COITINHO CONSTANTY AND VIVIANE M. HEBERLEPART IV: Picturebooks on migration: socialisation and education 11 What makes a good picturebook about migration and how can multimodal critical discourse analysis help us find the answer?THERESA CATALANO AND XIAOYAN GU12 Challenging our stance toward migrant children as language learners KATHY G. SHORT

Carmen Santamaría- García is Associate Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain.Eija Ventola is Emerita Professor with previous full professorships at universities in Finland, Austria, and Germany and guest professorships at various universities around the world, and is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

• 1 Picturebooks on migration and migrants: Multimodal perspectives CARMEN SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA AND EIJA VENTOLAPART I: Home(land), identity, and otherness in processes of migration 2 Multimodal study of the representation of migrants as ‘the others’ in a sample of picturebooks about migration MARÍA MARTINEZ-LIROLA3 Representations of ourselves: a blanket of visual tools in picturebooks on migration CORAL CALVO-MATURANA4 Building stories of value and identity: pragmatic inferences in children’s picturebooks about migration LAURA ALBA-JUEZ5 ‘Home is within’: ‘home’ and identity in picturebooks about migration MARIA BÎRLEA, IZASKUN ELORZA, AND MARK MCGLASHANPART II: Memories and emotions in picturebooks on migration 6 Picturebooks broaching the emotional trauma of child war refugees: a systemic-functional semiotic analysis LEN UNSWORTH7 A systemic-functional analysis and comparison of two ‘picturebook journeys’ CHRISTIAN M. I. M. MATTHIESSEN AND FRANCISCO O. D. VELOSO8 Visual metonymies of fear in picturebooks about Latin American migration to the U.S. AGATA ŻELACHOWSKA AND IZASKUN ELORZAPART III: Interaction, engagement, solidarity, and acceptance of diversity 9 A multimodal analysis of character–reader interaction in three picturebooks on migration ARSENIO JESÚS MOYA-GUIJARRO AND CARMEN SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA10 A difficult journey towards the unknown: a visual analysis of the trajectory of migrants seeking solidarity VERÔNICA PEREIRA COITINHO CONSTANTY AND VIVIANE M. HEBERLEPART IV: Picturebooks on migration: socialisation and education 11 What makes a good picturebook about migration and how can multimodal critical discourse analysis help us find the answer?THERESA CATALANO AND XIAOYAN GU12 Challenging our stance toward migrant children as language learners KATHY G. SHORT

Carmen Santamaría- García is Associate Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain.Eija Ventola is Emerita Professor with previous full professorships at universities in Finland, Austria, and Germany and guest professorships at various universities around the world, and is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

• 1 Picturebooks on migration and migrants: Multimodal perspectives CARMEN SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA AND EIJA VENTOLAPART I: Home(land), identity, and otherness in processes of migration 2 Multimodal study of the representation of migrants as ‘the others’ in a sample of picturebooks about migration MARÍA MARTINEZ-LIROLA3 Representations of ourselves: a blanket of visual tools in picturebooks on migration CORAL CALVO-MATURANA4 Building stories of value and identity: pragmatic inferences in children’s picturebooks about migration LAURA ALBA-JUEZ5 ‘Home is within’: ‘home’ and identity in picturebooks about migration MARIA BÎRLEA, IZASKUN ELORZA, AND MARK MCGLASHANPART II: Memories and emotions in picturebooks on migration 6 Picturebooks broaching the emotional trauma of child war refugees: a systemic-functional semiotic analysis LEN UNSWORTH7 A systemic-functional analysis and comparison of two ‘picturebook journeys’ CHRISTIAN M. I. M. MATTHIESSEN AND FRANCISCO O. D. VELOSO8 Visual metonymies of fear in picturebooks about Latin American migration to the U.S. AGATA ŻELACHOWSKA AND IZASKUN ELORZAPART III: Interaction, engagement, solidarity, and acceptance of diversity 9 A multimodal analysis of character–reader interaction in three picturebooks on migration ARSENIO JESÚS MOYA-GUIJARRO AND CARMEN SANTAMARÍA-GARCÍA10 A difficult journey towards the unknown: a visual analysis of the trajectory of migrants seeking solidarity VERÔNICA PEREIRA COITINHO CONSTANTY AND VIVIANE M. HEBERLEPART IV: Picturebooks on migration: socialisation and education 11 What makes a good picturebook about migration and how can multimodal critical discourse analysis help us find the answer?THERESA CATALANO AND XIAOYAN GU12 Challenging our stance toward migrant children as language learners KATHY G. SHORT