Journal of Literary Multilingualism 1 (2023) 225–239 brill.com/jlm Published with license by Koninklijke Brill NV | doi:10.1163/2667324X-20230206 © Majstorovic, 2023 | ISSN: 2667-324X (online) Writing and Unsettlement: Narratives of Migration in Bekim Sejranović and Hassan Blasim Gorica Majstorovic | ORCID: 0000-0001-7363-2672 PhD; Professor of Spanish and World Literature, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, US Gorica.Majstorovic@stockton.edu Received: 9 August 2022 | Accepted: 1 August 2023 | Published online: 3 November 2023 Abstract The present article focuses on unsettling language and place in texts by two contemporary migrant writers, Hassan Blasim (Iraq-Finland) and Bekim Sejranović (Bosnia-Norway). They fled war-torn areas while leaving a remarkable textual trace in Sejranović’s Diary of a Nomad (2017) and Blasim’s “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” (2014). This article addresses the ways in which these authors engage migrant multilingualism and ques- tion the ethics of exploiting migrant lives as material for media consumption. It argues that their writings are politically engaged counternarratives that are boundary-crossing because they problematize disciplinary, linguistic, and narrative borderlines. Keywords migration literature – literary multilingualism – Bekim Sejranović – Hassan Blasim Introduction Since the migration waves caused by the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, to the wars of today, one of the most complex dynamics structuring the contemporary world includes the contradiction between the free movement of capital and the restricted movement of people. During the so-called 2015 migrant crisis alone, more than one million people moved through Greece via the Balkan Downloaded from Brill.com 06/06/2024 04:19:22PM via free access